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 Illness as Metaphor Information
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 Illness as Metaphor is a nonfiction work written by Susan Sontag and published in 1978. She wrote it during her own fight against breast cancer and challenged the "blame the victim" mentality behind the language society often uses to describe diseases... 
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 The Boston Globe Schizophrenia is an illness, not a metaphor
06/01/1998: 233 words, approx. 1 pages FOR YOUR HEALTH Schizophrenic restaurants (Calendar, Dining, March 5, Page 5)? Schizophrenic Boston (Focus, May 10, Page C2)? If you read The Boston Globe, you might think that schizophrenia is a metaphor to descibe uneven, mixed, or split performance/opinions. Of course, if... summary from source:
Science News Metaphor in immunology.
10/18/1986: 982 words, approx. 3 pages Metaphor in Immunology Chemistry students are familiar with atoms that "like" to bond. Physics students encounter magnetic poles that "repel" or "attract." Science education (and science writing, for that matter) depends on metaphor to illustrate complicateed concepts. Even metaphor's critics find the... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Rieff’s Grief: Sontag’s Son, On Her Death
1/8/2008: 979 words, approx. 3 pagesSWIMMING IN A SEA OF DEATH By David Rieff Simon & Schuster, 179 pages, $21 There’s something obscene about sitting at a desk, in a chair that corrects the posture, sipping warm, sugary tea, yawning or scratching, barely aware of the fug of felt life,...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Review by Leon S. Roudiez
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In the following review, Roudiez contends that AIDS and Its Metaphors is not as cohesive as Illness as Metaphor, but contends that the new essay effectively clarifies confusing facts and misconceptions regarding AIDS.
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Critical Essay by Maggie Scarf
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Sontag's Illness as Metaphor is a message sent to us from someone who has sojourned in what she calls "the kingdom of the sick." It is not, however, a personal statement about what can be learned by living there; rather, it is a plea from the ill to the healthy for nondiscrimination against the citizens who live there—specifically those people who happen to be suffering from cancer. In a careful, scholarly, and yet passionate argument, the author compares our own century's... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Anthony Clare
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The use of metaphors for illness and disease forms the subject of Susan Sontag's remarkable little book [Illness as Metaphor]…. (p. 294) One can be critical of the process of converting illness into metaphor without having to fall back on a single-cause theory of disease. So why does Miss Sontag yoke them together so tightly? The answer, it seems to me, lies in her fear that any tendency to locate any responsibility for one's disease inside oneself may lead to a relentless scapegoating&...
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