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”. AIDS brings together two powerful metaphors about illness. First, AIDS develops further the theme (seen earlier in cancer) of disease as invader: the enemy invades and destroys you from within. Thus, AIDS strengthens the use of military metaphors in medicine. The war against cancer is reincarnated as a war against AIDS.  · It is not uncommon for people to write about their experience of experience. After the US writer Susan Sontag underwent chemotherapy for breast cancer, however, she took a different approach. Illness as Metaphorexamines in more general than personal terms how society regards illness and being ill, in particular “the punitive or sentimental fantasies concocted about that situation.”.Cited by:

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 And AIDS And Its Metaphors|Susan Sontag, African Odyssey|Theodore P. Druch, By the Numbers: Using Facts and Figures to Get Your Projects, Plans, and Ideas Approved|Susan Drake, Beyond Sight: The True Story of a Near-Death Experience|Marion Rome. Susan Sontag Illness At A Metaphor Analysis. Illness as Metaphor Illness at a Metaphor by Susan Sontag discusses how metaphors complicate diseases or syndromes of multiple or unknown causes. Sontag says that the most truthful way to describe illnesses is without any influence of metaphors, to keep it as pure and scientific as possible (Sontag 3).

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. It is not uncommon for people to write about their experience of experience. After the US writer Susan Sontag underwent chemotherapy for breast cancer, however, she took a different approach. Illness as Metaphorexamines in more general than personal terms how society regards illness and being ill, in particular “the punitive or sentimental fantasies concocted about that situation.”. 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.