Title: Illness as metaphor
First published: 1978
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.
Subjects: AIDS (Disease), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Cancer, Cancer in literature, Literature, Medicine in literature, Metaphor, Neoplasms, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Cancer, Social aspects, Social aspects of AIDS (Disease), Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis and literature, Tuberculosis in literature, Metaforen, Tuberculose, Kanker, Literatur, Krebs, Cancer dans la littérature, Metapher, Tuberkulose, Tuberculose dans la littérature, Diseases in literature, Folklore, Attitude to Health, Attitude to Death, Sick, Fiction, short stories (single author), Aids (disease), social aspects