Name: Illness as Metaphor and Aids and its Metaphors (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Author: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9780141187129

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Susan Sontag

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Penguin Classics

Synopsis "Illness as Metaphor and Aids and its Metaphors (Penguin Modern Classics)"

Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor" in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study, she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is - a disease; not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment, and highly curable, if good treatment is found early enough. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote "Aids and Its Metaphors", extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.

Susan Sontag

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(Nueva York, 1933-2004) escritora, novelista, filósofa, ensayista, profesora, directora de cine y guionista estadounidense. Inició su carrera literaria en 1963 y se consolidó como una de las principales figuras de los movimientos intelectuales de los años sesenta. Cuenta con gran prestigio, tanto por sus obras como por denuncia de los grandes problemas sociales y políticos contemporáneos. Ha recibido varios galardones, entre ellos, el Premio Jerusalén por el conjunto de su obra en 2001 y en 2003 el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras y el Premio de la Paz, concedido por los libreros alemanes.

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