Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its MetaphorsIn l978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor. A cancer patient herself at the time, she shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is - just a disease. Cancer is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment, and highly curable, if good treatment is found early enough. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatised disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote Aids and its Metaphors, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic. |
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Đánh giá của Người dùng - lethalmauve - LibraryThing“Modern disease metaphors specify an ideal of society’s wellbeing, analogised to physical health, that is frequently anti-political as it is a call for a new political order.” Illness as Metaphor ... Đọc toàn bộ bài đánh giá
AIDS AND ITS METAPHORS
Đánh giá của Người dùng - KirkusA necessary, freeing essay about the way we think about AIDS, and a sequel to Sontag's ten-year-old Illness as Metaphor. Behind the earlier book lay the fact that Sontag herself had won through a two ... Đọc toàn bộ bài đánh giá
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| Tiêu đề | Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Penguin Modern Classics |
| Tác giả | Susan Sontag |
| Nhà xuất bản | Penguin UK, 2013 |
| ISBN | 014191176X, 9780141911762 |
| Độ dài | 192 trang |
| Xuất lời trích dẫn | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |