Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
by
Susan Sontag
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN-10
0141187123
ISBN-13
9780141187129
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 3rd, 2009
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
155 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.80 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literary essaysLiterary studies: generalIllness & addiction: social aspects
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Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, this study shows cancer for what it is.
Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is - a disease; not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment, and highly curable, if good treatment is found early enough. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote Aids and Its Metaphors, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.
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