Illness as metaphor
by Susan Sontag
- Reader rating
- 4.4 / 5
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 88
- ISBN
- 9780374174460
About this book
Two diseases have been spectacularly, and similarly, encumbered by the trappings of metaphor: tuberculosis and cancer.
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