Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag.
1990
RA644.A25 S662 1990 (Mapit)
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Title
Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag.
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Uniform Title
Illness as metaphor
Edition
1st Anchor books ed.
ISBN
0385267053
9780385267052
9780385267052
Publication Details
New York : Doubleday, 1990.
Language
English
Description
183 pages ; 21 cm
Call Number
RA644.A25 S662 1990
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.4/61
Summary
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.
Note
Reprint (1st work). Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978.
Reprint (2nd work). Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.
Reprint (2nd work). Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.
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Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. AIDS and its metaphors.
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