Illness as Metaphor

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Release Year
1979
Book Title
Illness as Metaphor
ISBN
9780394728445
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0394728440
ISBN-13
9780394728445
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1737221

Product Key Features

Subject
Aids & Hiv
Publication Year
1979
Publication Name
Illness As Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphors
Language
English
Type
Textbook
Author
Susan Sontag
Subject Area
Non-Classifiable, Medical
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Weight
2.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
306.4/61
Synopsis
In 1978 Susan 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.

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