Ebook {Epub PDF} Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag

As a result, Susan Sontag argues, diseases have been used to identify individuals or entire social groups (homosexuals and drug addicts in case of AIDS) as unwanted, dangerous and alien. Myths and metaphors, she continues, also “inhibit people from seeking treatment early enough, or from making a greater effort to get competent treatment”. The fact that illness is associated with the poor—who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one’s midst—reinforces the association of illness with the foreign: with an exotic, often primitive place.”. ― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. 0 www.doorway.ru by: Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. She is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Her /5(15).

In Susan Sontag wroteIllness as Metaphor, a classic work described byNewsweek 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 inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. Illness as Metaphor Susan Sontag Janu issue I llness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport. Although it extends our communicative abilities (of tricky subjects we usually want to avoid), metaphor is a fantasy, and, argues Susan Sontag (Janu - Decem) in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors invites understanding based on fantasy. As long as a particular disease is treated as an evil, invincible.

AIDS and Its Metaphors is a work of critical theory by Susan Sontag. In this companion book to her Illness as Metaphor (), Sontag extends her arguments about the metaphors attributed to cancer to the AIDS crisis. Sontag explores how attitudes to disease are formed in society, and attempts to deconstruct them. Two essays by Susan Sontag are devoted to an analysis of myths surrounding paradigmatic diseases of modern times and metaphors that turn physical illnesses into a moral matter and lead to public shaming of their victims. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic. These two essays now published together, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands.