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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors

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In these two texts, Sontag shows how the metaphors surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. Examples of metaphor are taken from medical and psychiatric thinking, as well as literary sources.

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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors, Susan Sontag

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1991
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Lingua
Inglese
Editore
Penguin
Pubblicato
1991
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
192
ISBN10
0141187123
ISBN13
9780141187129
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In these two texts, Sontag shows how the metaphors surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. Examples of metaphor are taken from medical and psychiatric thinking, as well as literary sources.