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 Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors: AND AIDS and Its Metaphors by Sontag, Susan |
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Brief Description 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, this book shows cancer for what it is - just a disease. |
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Author Information Susan Sontag is one of America's best-known and most admired writers. She is the author of several work of fiction and her non-fiction includes ON PHOTOGRAPHY (Penguin), winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award. She has also written and directed four feature films and stages plays in the US and Europe. |
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Synopsis "Illness as Metaphor" is an examination of the fantasies concocted around conditions such as cancer and tuberculosis in our cultural history. Susan Sontag argues that illness is not a metaphor and that the most truthful way of regarding illness - and the healthiest way of being ill - is to resist such thinking. Her examples of metaphors and images of illness are taken from medical and psychiatric thinking as well as from sources ranging from Greek and Medieval writings to Dickens, Thomas Mann, Henry James, Frank Lloyd Wright, Auden and others. "Aids and its Metaphors", the sequel, is obviously written in the light of the Aids crisis. Sontag states that our metaphors for Aids and its effects may be damaging; they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms, and therefore threaten not only the victims of the disease but all of society. |
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Related Links - Countrybookshop Bestselling Authors in Illness And Addiction: Social Aspects Mankell, Henning Booth, Martin Sontag, Susan Preston, Brian Vega, William A. Melrose, Margaret De-Leon, George Goldstein, Avram Kroll, Brynna Valverde, Mariana |
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