Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 9780141911762
ISBN-13 : 014191176X
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Download or read book Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors written by Susan Sontag and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In l978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor. A cancer patient herself at the time, she shows how 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 - just a disease. Cancer is 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, stigmatised 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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