Illness as Metaphor
by Susan Sontag
Published for the first time: 1/1/1978
87 pages, Paperback
Genres: Health, Medicine, Theory, Psychology, Nonfiction, Essays, Philosophy
A discussion of the ways in which illness is regarded pays particular attention to fantasies that pertain to cancer
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