Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

图书标准信息

• 作者 Susan Sontag 著
• 出版社 Picador
• 出版时间 2001-08
• ISBN 9780312420130
• 定价 126.50元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 192页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

In1978SusanSontagWrote"IllnessAsMetaphor,"AClassicWorkDescribedBy"Newsweek"As"OneOfTheMostLiberatingBooksOfItsTime."ACancerPatientHerselfWhenSheWasWritingTheBook,SontagShowsHowTheMetaphorsAndMythsSurroundingCertainIllnesses,EspeciallyCancer,AddGreatlyToTheSufferingOfPatientsAndOftenInhibitThemFromSeekingProperTreatment.ByDemystifyingTheFantasiesSurroundingCancer,SontagShowsCancerForWhatItIs--JustADisease.Cancer,SheArgues,IsNotACurse,NotAPunishment,CertainlyNotAnEmbarrassmentAnd,ItIsHighlyCurable,IfGoodTreatmentIsFollowed.AlmostADecadeLater,WithTheOutbreakOfANew,StigmatizedDiseaseRepleteWithMystificationsAndPunitiveMetaphors,SontagWroteASequelTo"IllnessAsMetaphor,"ExtendingTheArgumentOfTheEarlierBookToTheAidsPandemic.TheseTwoEssaysNowPublishedTogether,"IllnessAsMetaphor"And"AidsAndItsMetaphors,"HaveBeenTranslatedIntoManyLanguagesAndContinueToHaveAnEnormousInfluenceOnTheThinkingOfMedicalProfessionalsAnd,AboveAll,OnTheLivesOfManyThousandsOfPatientsAndCaregivers.