Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, (Paperback)

from lethalmauve

“Modern disease metaphors specify an ideal of society's wellbeing, analogised to physical health, that is frequently anti-political as it is a call for a new political order.” Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors is an eloquently incisive dissection of how diseases used as metaphors limi...

from marialondon

Cancer phobia, some people say, is worse than cancer. Well, not really... But true up to a point. Being afraid of a disease, be it cancer, AIDS, or whatever else, can be debilitating. And who of us doesn't know people that are scared to death of cancer, or of AIDS? And how can we all not be scare...

from jcbrunner

This collection of two essays examines the social consequences of disease and illness. Cancer, tuberculosis, AIDS and other fatal ills affect the sufferers not only medically but redefines their social position. Guilty by association, the sufferer is ostracized by society, in the mild case in ord...

from araridan

I was curious about Susan Sontag because for a while, a bunch of the novels that I was reading featured forewords written by her. I had been advised that her fiction is terrible and she is much stronger at essays. This first part of this book was written while Sontag was being treated for cancer....