Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
$44.48
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2025
Summary
Decoding Disease: 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 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 s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250374738 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1250374731 |
| Author: | Susan Sontag |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 137mm x 25mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor was the first to point out the accusatory side of the metaphors of empowerment that seek to enlist the patient’s will to resist disease. It is largely as a result of her work that the how-to health books avoid the blame-ridden term ‘cancer personality’ and speak more soothingly of ‘disease-producing lifestyles’ … AIDS and Its Metaphors extends her critique of cancer metaphors to the metaphors of dread surrounding the AIDS virus. Taken together, the two essays are an exemplary demonstration of the power of the intellect in the face of the lethal metaphors of fear.” –Michael Ignatieff, The New Republic
About The Author
Susan Sontag
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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