Illness as MetaphorAIDS and Its Metaphors
Susan Sontag
In these two texts, Sontag shows how the metaphors surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. Examples of metaphor are taken from medical and psychiatric thinking, as well as literary sources.
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Posted by billyfisher1977 (1 year ago ) Thinking doesn't get much clearer or more incisive than this.
Two terrific essays that, if you haven't come across them before, will transfigure your ideas about illness and dying.
Sontag was an amazing thinker, and an amazing writer.
Cheers,
Billy
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