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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

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**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.

About Author

Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and

Author

Susan Sontag

Format

Ebook

ISBN

9780141911762

Language

English

Pages

145

Publication Date

08-24-2001

Publisher

Picador

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