An edition of Illness as metaphor
(1978)
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
1 edition
by Susan Sontag
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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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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| Edition | Availability |
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (Penguin Modern Classics)
December 5, 2002, Penguin Classics
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
August 25, 2001, Picador
Paperback
in English
- 1 edition
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Illness As Metaphor And AIDS And Its Metaphors
June 1995, Peter Smith Publisher
Hardcover
in English
0844668273 9780844668277
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Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors
1990, Doubleday
in English
- 1st Anchor Books ed.
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Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors
1990, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Picador USA
in English
- 1st Picador USA ed.
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
December 1, 1989, Anchor
in English
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Illness as metaphor
1979, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage Books edition.
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Illness as metaphor
1979, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage Books edition.
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"Two diseases have been spectacularly, and similarly, encumbered by the trappings of metaphor: tuberculosis and cancer."
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| November 4, 2011 | Edited by WorkBot | merge works |
| November 4, 2011 | Edited by WorkBot | add editions to new work |
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