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ILLNESS AS METAPHOR AND AIDS AND ITS METAPHORS ...

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 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 highly curable
if good treatment is found early enough. Almost a decade later  with the outbreak of a new 
stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors  Sontag wrote Aids and
Its Metaphors  extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.

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