Illness as Metaphor

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  • Illness as Metaphor Book Detail

  • Author : Susan Sontag
  • Release Date : 1979
  • Publisher :
  • Genre : Cancer
  • Pages : 100
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 26,26 MB

Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag PDF Summary

Book Description: "In this penetrating analysis of the social attitudes toward various major illnesses - chiefly tuberculosis, the scourge of the 19th century, and cancer, the terror of our own - Susan Sontag demonstrates that "illness is not a metaphor" and shows why "the healthiest way of being ill is one purified of metaphoric thinking." Once tuberculosis was identified as a bacterial infection, it ceased to be a symbol of a romantic fading away or of a sensitive or artistic temperament, and it could be treated and cured. Similarly, we must today cease to think of cancer as a mark of doom, a punishment or a sign of a repressed personality, and recognize it for what it is: one disease among many and often receptive to treatment." -- from back cover.

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