Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Picador
Published: August 25, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780312420130
Subjects: Physical Illness (Psychiatric Aspects); Sontag, Susan - Prose & Criticism; Health & Fitness; Sociology; Health/Fitness; Diseases - AIDS & HIV; Semiotics & Theory; Sociology - Social Theory; Medical / AIDS & HIV; Diseases - Cancer; AIDS (Disease); Metaphor; Social aspects; Tuberculosis in literature
First sentence: Two diseases have been spectacularly, and similarly, encumbered by the trappings of metaphor: tuberculosis and cancer.