Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors - Susan Sontag
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AIDS
Cancer
Disability
Health
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In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time”. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of 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, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment, and it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed.
Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.These two essays now published together, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands of patients and caregivers.
Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
Release date: 03-01-18
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This post has 5 comments
April 27th, 2024
46 years ago Susan Sontag wrote this book.
Perhaps what is written in this book is not the right way to understand cancer.
April 27th, 2024
After all, there is still no cure for cancer.
April 27th, 2024
No matter how many languages this book has been translated into or what impact it has had on the thinking of health care workers and patients, they are still dying from cancer today.
April 27th, 2024
@Artur1
What the fck are you writing about? How the 2 came together in your head? Philosophy as a cure for anything? WTF?
May 1st, 2024
🙂…funny man Arthur
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