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AIDS AND ITS METAPHORS. A necessary, freeing essay about the way we think about AIDS, and a sequel to Sontag's ten-year-old Illness as Metaphor. Behind the earlier book lay the fact that Sontag herself had won through a two-and-a-half-year illness with cancer, and come out against gloomy doctors and unhealthy terms used to describe cancer.
25 de ago. de 2001 · 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. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks ...
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25 de ago. de 2001 · Macmillan, Aug 25, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 183 pages. Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume. In 1978, 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 ...
6 de set. de 2007 · Illness as Metaphor; AIDS and its Metaphors. It is not uncommon for people to write about their experience of experience. After the US writer Susan Sontag underwent chemotherapy for breast cancer, however, she took a different approach. Illness as Metaphor examines in more general than personal terms how society regards illness and being ill ...
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. In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor," a classic work described by "Newsweek" as "one of the most ...
22 de out. de 2021 · Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. AIDS and its metaphors Boxid IA40266013 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier urn:oclc:record:1285651748 urn:lcp:illnessasmetapho0000sont:lcpdf:f113b381-e850-48aa-9cb8-049b1d5e9f96
Susan_Sontag_AIDS_and_Its_Metaphors_1989.pdf - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or view presentation slides online. This document discusses the use and history of metaphors related to illness and the body. It analyzes Aristotle's definition of metaphor and provides examples of metaphors used in ancient Greek medicine and by ...
