Paperback, 183 pages
English language
Published 1990 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Picador USA.
Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors
by Susan Sontag
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Two essays address how the myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer and AIDS, can add to a patient's suffering and even inhibit someone from seeking treatment.
Two essays address how the myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer and AIDS, can add to a patient's suffering and even inhibit someone from seeking treatment.
Subjects
- AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects.
- Metaphor.
- Tuberculosis in literature.
- Cancer in literature.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Medicine in Literature
- Neoplasms
- Tuberculosis