Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag

Illness as Metaphor

Susan Sontag

87 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction essays health philosophy challenging emotional informative slow-paced
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A reader drawn to incisive critiques of societal narratives and the human experience of suffering, who seeks to confront the stigmatization of disease through eloquent, transformative discourse.

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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 ce...

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