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In l978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor. A cancer patient herself at the time, she 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, Sontag shows cancer for what it is - just a disease. Cancer is 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, stigmatised disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote Aids and its Metaphors, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #209799 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
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.