Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag #joyce increasingly reclusive

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A brand new booked signed by Ai Weiwei on the title page

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his mother Eleni broke open the fragile gift

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag #joyce increasingly reclusiveSontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is a disease; not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment, and