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180 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780141911762
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
Publication date: 31 January 2013
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Sontag 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...
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180 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780141911762
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
Publication date: 31 January 2013
Description
Sontag 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...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings