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Followed by. AIDS and Its Metaphors. Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag, in which she challenged the victim-blaming in the language that is often used to describe diseases and the people affected by them. Teasing out the similarities between public perspectives on cancer (the paradigmatic disease of ...
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1 de ene. de 1978 · 4.4 27 ratings. See all formats and editions. A discussion of the ways in which illness is regarded pays particular attention to fantasies that pertain to cancer. Report an issue with this product or seller. Print length. 87 pages. Language. English. Publisher. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Publication date. January 1, 1978. ISBN-10. 0374174431.
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Illness as metaphor: an approach from the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. En-clav. pen [online]. 2023, vol.17, n.33, e602. Epub May 12, 2023. ISSN 2594-1100. https://doi.org/10.46530/ecdp.v0i33.602. The use of metaphors is common when talking about health and illness.
25 de ago. de 2001 · Books. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Susan Sontag. Macmillan, Aug 25, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 183 pages. Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now...
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1 de ene. de 1978 · First published as an 87-page monograph in 1978, Illness as Metaphor critiques the dehumanizing myths and metaphors associated with the most infamous illnesses of modernity: TB in the nineteenth century, cancer in the twentieth.
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Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of 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.
5 de sept. de 2023 · Last Updated September 5, 2023. This controversial book-length essay by Susan Sontag explores the way in which the figurative language used to describe diseases such as tuberculosis and cancer has...
