Illness as metaphor
About this book
In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel that would counter the almost universal labeling of AIDS as a "plague". Published together in one volume these works are brimming with humane and original ideas about disease and the modern condition.
Subjects
- acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
- aids (disease)
- aids (disease), social aspects
- attitude to death
- attitude to health
- cancer
- cancer dans la littérature
- cancer in literature
- diseases in literature
- fiction, short stories (single author)
- folklore
- kanker
- krebs
- literatur
- literature
- medicine in literature
- metaforen
- metapher
- metaphor
- neoplasms
- religious aspects
- religious aspects of cancer
- sick
- social aspects
- social aspects of aids (disease)
- tuberculose
- tuberculose dans la littérature
- tuberculosis
- tuberculosis and literature
- tuberculosis in literature
- tuberkulose