Illness as Metaphor And, AIDS and Its Metaphors

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Publisher's Synopsis

As a cancer patient in the 1970s, Susan Sontag wrote 'Illness as a Metaphor' to show how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients. The second essay extends the argument to the AIDS pandemic.

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Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780312420130
Publisher: Picador
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 616.9792001
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 183
Weight: 163g
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 13mm