{"product_id":"illness-as-metaphor-and-aids-and-its-metaphors","title":"Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors","description":"Susan Sontag’s celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.\n\nIn 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek 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. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is―just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment; and it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed.\n\nAlmost 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.\n\nThese 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 of patients and caregivers.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0312420137\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0312420137.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Sontag, Susan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41579117346874,"sku":"DBV.0312420137.A","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0312420137-0.jpg?v=1785897567","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/illness-as-metaphor-and-aids-and-its-metaphors","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}