Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag ▪︎ Hardcover First Printing 1978

by Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag — Illness as Metaphor — Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978, Stated First Printing in Original Unclipped Dust Jacket Stated First Printing of Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1978. Hardcover with the original pictorial dust jacket designed by Muriel Nasser, featuring "Hercules Combating the Hydra" — a 15th-century engraving of the school of Mantegna, from the collection of medical prints at The Philadelphia Museum of Art. ISBN 0-374-17443-1. 88 pages. Brown cloth boards. About the Book Written by Susan Sontag during and immediately after her own treatment for breast cancer, Illness as Metaphor is a landmark essay in 20th-century American cultural criticism. Sontag examines the punishing fantasies and metaphors that accumulate around disease — particularly tuberculosis in the 19th century and cancer in the 20th — and argues that these metaphors stigmatize patients, distort medical understanding, and obscure the biological realities of illness. The essay was originally presented as the James Lectures at New York University and first appeared in The New York Review of Books in three parts (January–February 1978) before this expanded book publication. Together with its 1989 companion volume AIDS and Its Metaphors, the work is a foundational text in the medical humanities, disability studies, and the cultural history of disease. About the Author Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was one of the most influential American intellec

• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Year: 1978
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 0374174431

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