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18 de jun. de 2024 · This article attempts to explore the metaphorization of illness, the traumas caused by the inappropriate use of illness metaphors, and the occurrence of similar phenomena during and after...
18 de jun. de 2024 · The implication of the illness metaphors of In America: Mitigating negative effects of metaphors through illness narratives in the postpandemic era of COVID-19. Susan Sontag’s cancer experience made her realize the harm that the inappropriate use of illness metaphors might do to patients.
Hace 5 días · Susan Sontag writes eloquently in ‘Illness as a metaphor’, describing how “any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious” and that illness can lead one to being shunned by relatives and friends, become an object of contamination, and how the individual can become an embodied violation of a taboo.
14 de jun. de 2024 · In the realm of chronic illness (or conditions), imagery can play a dual role—both enlightening and obscuring the true nature of living with long-term health conditions. Common Imagery and Metaphors Used to Describe Illness
26 de jun. de 2024 · This paper offers a comparative textual analysis of the different states of exception declared in the USA, France, and Spain. I argue that these texts constitute a privileged site to explore how prevalent global political logics and mainstream discourses on illness are interwoven.
9 de jun. de 2024 · In her book Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag enumerates the historicophilosophical development of tuberculosis (TB) and cancer as metaphors. The two diseases share the quality of being historically mysterious, insofar as there was no known cure, and so were imaginatively fatal in every instance.
13 de jun. de 2024 · In “Illness as Metaphor,” Susan Sontag had noted in 1978 that “every physician and every attentive patient is familiar with, if perhaps inured to, this military terminology.” But now, opposition to the notion of disease as an enemy combatant reached a crescendo.
