Illness as metaphor

Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag.

1st Anchor books ed.

New York : Doubleday, 1990.

183 pages ; 21 cm

BEIN 2018 4541: Paperbound. Autograph: "Samuel R. Delany". Manuscript notes of Samuel R. Delany throughout. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.

In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel that would counter the almost universal labeling of AIDS as a "plague". Published together in one volume these works are brimming with humane and original ideas about disease and the modern condition.

English

November 12, 2003