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Illness as metaphor

  • Susan Sontag

4.40

5 ratings

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.

Genres

  • 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
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About the author

  • Susan Sontag

    16 Jan 1933 - 28 Dec 2004

    4.03

    31 ratings · 223 works

Editions

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    Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    1978

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    Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    1978

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    1st Vintage Books edition.

    Vintage Books

    1979

  • Edition cover

    1st Vintage Books edition.

    Vintage Books

    1979

Edition cover

1st Vintage Books ed.

Vintage Books

1979

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    1 edition

    Picador

    August 25, 2001

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    Penguin Classics

    December 5, 2002

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    1st Anchor Books ed.

    Doubleday

    1990

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    Anchor

    December 1, 1989

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    1st Picador USA ed.

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Picador USA

    1990

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    Farrar, Straus & Giroux

    1978

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    Allen Lane

    1979

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    Farrar Straus & Giroux

    August 1988

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    Penguin

    1983

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    Penguin

    1991

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    Farrar Straus Giroux

    April 1988

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    Farrar Straus Giroux

    July 1988

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    Peter Smith Publisher

    June 1995