Susan Sontag

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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its MetaphorsPaperback, 25 August 2001

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
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Print Length
192 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Picador USA
Date Published
25 Aug 2001
ISBN-10
0312420137
ISBN-13
9780312420130

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**Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.
**
In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is--just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment and, it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed.

Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.

These two essays now published together, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands of patients and caregivers.

Product Details

Author:
Susan Sontag
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
25 August 2001
Dimensions:
21.18 x 14.17 x 1.35 cm
Genre:
AIDS
ISBN-10:
0312420137
ISBN-13:
9780312420130
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
192
Publisher:
Weight:
185.97 gm

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