Disease Metaphor
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The conscience of the American public, one of the most famous critical collections of Sontag, the eternal intellectual idol, a classic work of contemporary social criticism about human epidemics, and a treasure book that many literary youths quote from classics and read on their desks. This book is one of Susan Sontag's most famous literary works. It contains two important essays by Sontag, "Illness as Metaphor" and "AIDS and Its Metaphors". In the article, Sontag reflects on and criticizes how diseases such as tuberculosis, AIDS, and cancer have become metaphorical step by step in social interpretation, transforming from "just a disease of the body" into a process of moral criticism, and then into a process of political oppression. The article was originally serialized in the New York Review of Books. Due to the huge response, the two articles were collected and published in volumes many times in the following years, becoming a classic work of social criticism.
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