Illness As Metaphor

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.

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Other Editions

• Illness As MetaphorFarrar Straus & Giroux1988-08-01
• Illness as metaphorFarrar, Straus and Giroux1978-01-01
• Illness as metaphor.Farrar, Straus & Giroux1978-01-01
• Illness as metaphorFarrar, Straus and Giroux1978-01-01
• Illness as metaphorAllen Lane1979-01-01
• Illness as metaphorVintage Books1979-01-01