Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Name: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Author: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9780141187129

by Susan Sontag

ISBN: 9780141187129

Published: 2002

AIDS (Disease)

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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