Illness as Metaphor and Aids and its Metaphors [Audiobook] download free by Susan Sontag
- Listen audiobook: Illness as Metaphor and Aids and its Metaphors
- Author: Susan Sontag
- Release date: 2009/2/13
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9780141187129
- Rating: 7.17 of 10
- Votes: 491
- Review by: Leyla Kowalski
- Review rating: 9.58 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/14
- Duration: 2H25M8S in 256 kbps (38.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA Lossless, FLAC, WMA, MPEG4, TTA, WAV, MP3 (compression TAR.Z, CBR, RAR, DMG, ZIP, LHA)
- Total pages original book: 192
- Includes a PDF summary of 19 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 14M20S (3.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: General, Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects, Literary Essays
- Download servers: Casebox, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, 4Shared, Google Drive. Compressed in TAR.Z, CBR, RAR, DMG, ZIP, LHA
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.19 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x11mm
- Weight: 145g
- Printed by: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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