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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors: AND AIDS and Its Metaphors (Penguin Modern Classics)
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors AND AIDS and Its Metaphors - Penguin Modern Classics
Author: Susan Sontag
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780141187129
ISBN-10: 0141187123
Publication Date: 12/5/2002
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
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