Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Sontag, Susan

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness...
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Sontag, Susan

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

$18.00

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

$18.00
Author: Susan Sontag
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.

In 1978, 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.

Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 07/15/2025
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.53w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9781250374738

About the Author
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was the author of numerous works of nonfiction, including the groundbreaking collection of essays Against Interpretation, and of four novels, including In America, which won the National Book Award.

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