Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors
By: Susan Sontag.
Contributors: Sontag, Susan, 1933-
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects.; Metaphor.; Tuberculosis in literature.; Cancer in literature.
Description: 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.
Notes: Reprint (1st work). Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978.
Reprint (2nd work). Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.