Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Sculpting Robert Dessaix collapses in a

Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst

Focusing on history

Winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

and carrying with them the scars of their families' tumultuous pasts

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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Sculpting Robert Dessaix collapses in aSusan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume. In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment.