@article{1374257, note = {Reprint (1st work). Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978.}, author = {Sontag, Susan, and Sontag, Susan,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1374257}, title = {Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors /}, publisher = {Doubleday,}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {1374257}, pages = {183 pages ;}, address = {New York :}, year = {1990}, }