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Illness as metaphor

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An edition of Illness as metaphor (1978)

Illness as metaphor

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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.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
87

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AIDS (Disease), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Cancer, Cancer in literature, Literature, Medicine in literature, Metaphor, Neoplasms, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Cancer, Social aspects, Social aspects of AIDS (Disease), Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis and literature, Tuberculosis in literature, Metaforen, Tuberculose, Kanker, Literatur, Krebs, Cancer dans la littérature, Metapher, Tuberkulose, Tuberculose dans la littérature, Diseases in literature, Folklore, Attitude to Health, Attitude to Death, Sick, Fiction, short stories (single author), Aids (disease), social aspects

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Cover of: Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors
Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors
1990, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Picador USA
in English - 1st Picador USA ed.
Cover of: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
December 1, 1989, Anchor
in English
Cover of: Illness as metaphor
Illness as metaphor
1979, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
Cover of: Illness as metaphor
Illness as metaphor
1979, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books edition.
Cover of: Illness as metaphor
Illness as metaphor
1978, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English

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Dewey Decimal Class
306.4/61
Library of Congress
PN56.T82 S6 1978

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Pagination
87 p. ;
Number of pages
87

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OL4720080M
Internet Archive
illnessasmetapho00susa
ISBN 10
0374174431
LCCN
78007031
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1881211
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1136236

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OL496481W

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