Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Name: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Brand: Susan Sontag
SKU: 9780141187129
Price: 10.72 GBP
Availability: InStock

by Susan Sontag

Title:

Author:

Susan Sontag

Series (if any):

Penguin Modern Classics

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

192 pages

Publisher:

TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale

ISBN-13:

9780141187129

EAN:

9780141187129

Classifications:

Biography and non-fiction prose

Weight (g):

266

Dimensions (mm):

197 x 128 x 13

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£10.72

16 copies in stock

Qty

Description

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.