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It even prevents doctors from being honest with the patients for fear that the dreaded word cancer will sap the patients desire to get wellVamps and Tramps: New EssaysPenguin Books, 1995, pSave Time We've broken down the chapters, themes, and characters so you can understand them on your first read-throughAccess our Illness as Metaphor Study Guide for Free Start your 48-hour free trial to access our Illness as Metaphor study guide, along with more than 30,000 other titlesThe New York TimesNavigate Guide Summary Critical Essays Literary Essentials: Nonfiction Masterpieces Illness as Metaphor Analysis Masterpieces of Women's Literature Illness as Metaphor Analysis Critical Context Analysis (The entire section is 1187 words.) Get Free Access to this Illness as Metaphor Study Guide Start your 48-hour free trial to unlock this resource and thousands moreAt the time that Sontag was writing, the current alternative cancer treatment fad was psychotherapy for the patient's supposed "cancer personality"She likens this belief to earlier notions that tuberculosis was somehow associated with the artistic sensibility or with especially sensitive natures

.We invite you to become a part of our communityShe notes the peculiar reversal that "With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer), the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the diseasebecause it has not expressed itselfJoin eNotes Recommended Literature Study Guides New Study Guides Literature Lesson Plans Shakespeare Quotes Homework Help Essay Help Other Useful Stuff FAQ About Us Contact Us Terms of Use Pricing Jobs Blog Connect With Us      2017 eNotes.com, IncSo common is their use and so subtle are their implications, illness metaphors are used without considering the consequencesTo prove her point about cancer and its metaphors, Sontag makes a parallel argument about metaphors andSontags main concern is to refute the idea that there are psychological causes of diseaseHome > Study Guides > Illness as Metaphor Illness as Metaphor Summary Susan Sontag Summary print Print document PDF This Page Only Entire Study Guide list Cite link Link Sontag wrote this polemical book in the wake of her own arduous recovery from breast cancer^ Paglia, Camille

The short book was originally published as three long essays in the New York Review of Books.[5] Some of the more inflammatory language was slightly toned down when it was published as a bookGet Better Grades Our 30,000+ summaries will help you comprehend your required reading to ace every test, quiz, and essayAccess Everything From Anywhere We have everything you need in one place, even if you're on the goIllness as Metaphor Author Susan Sontag Country United States Language English Subject cancer, tuberculosis, disease, social stigma, metaphor Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Publication date 1978 Pages 87 ISBN 978-0-374-17443-9 OCLC 299370676 Dewey Decimal 809.9 Followedby AIDS and Its Metaphors You are running an unsupported browser, some features may not work.Learn moreFor example, what Sontag originally called the "inimitable looniness" of Wilhelm Reich's language was softened to the "inimitable coherence".[5]When the true, physical cause of the disease was discovered, and a treatment with antibiotics was developed, such psychological explanations were abandoned, she concludesSummary (Critical Survey of Literature for Students) print Print document PDF This Page Only Entire Study Guide list Cite link Link Illness as Metaphor, a book of social criticism by critic and novelist Susan Sontag, is an analysis of how people make meaning of disease and how those meanings can be detrimentalPerhaps her repressed personality had contributed to her sickness, she surmisedBaltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 3c092786bf

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