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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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Sprache
Englisch
Autor*innen
Susan Sontag
Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Einband
Paperback
Seitenzahl
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.