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Disease as a metaphor

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"Sickness as Metaphor" (1978) is an essay by Susan Sontag in which she attempts to demystify cancer by debunking the myths and metaphors surrounding the disease. The theme of the work is not physical pain per se, but the use of the disease as a figure of speech. Sontag argues that cancer is neither a curse nor a punishment; it is simply a disease (which can be cured). Ten years later, with the outbreak of a newly stigmatized disease rife with hoaxes and punitive metaphors, a sequel to "The Disease..." appeared - "AIDS and Its Metaphors" (1989), an essay expanding the field of study to the AIDS pandemic. The present book presents both works, in which Sontag shows that "illness is not a metaphor and that the most honest approach to illness, and the most 'healthy' way to be sick, is to try to abandon metaphorical thinking altogether."
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