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# Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

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Review: Good book - Exactly as described
Review: The far reaching metaphors of illness - A good reference book for understanding the human condition. Illness and ubiquitousness of it take us To a sometimes unreadable place. As Susan puts words to her experience and ponders, it researches it and rereads it herself 10 years later she put illness in perspective and should us how we make metaphors out of it that are far reaching. TB ,cancer and then AIDS.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #45,540 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2 in AIDS & HIV (Books) #31 in Sociological Study of Medicine #67 in Literary Criticism & Theory |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (427) |
| Dimensions  | 5.5 x 0.46 x 8.25 inches |
| Edition  | First Edition |
| ISBN-10  | 0312420137 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0312420130 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 192 pages |
| Publication date  | August 25, 2001 |
| Publisher  | Picador |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book
*by S***E on May 23, 2025*

Exactly as described

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The far reaching metaphors of illness
*by A***R on December 22, 2023*

A good reference book for understanding the human condition. Illness and ubiquitousness of it take us To a sometimes unreadable place. As Susan puts words to her experience and ponders, it researches it and rereads it herself 10 years later she put illness in perspective and should us how we make metaphors out of it that are far reaching. TB ,cancer and then AIDS.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Publisher finish lacking
*by D***N on April 4, 2013*

The book did not have a glossary or an index at the back to identify concepts in the book and I believe this was unprofessional. The publishers should have sorted that out. Any reader of serious authors expects these niceties for easy reference. However as a scholar, follower and disciple of Sontag for a life time, I believe she has few peers. She cuts through the facades of life, finding the kernel of truth. She is worth reading again and again. Every student of philosophy and English should read everyone of Sontag's works. Each time I read her I find something I have missed - a nuance, deliberate ambituity and confrontation with our beguiling evasion of what is really happening in our society. I write this decades on from her first publication and obervation of 'life' and yet I notice it could be a rendition of modern life.

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