Verlag: Anchor, 1989
ISBN 10: 0385267053 ISBN 13: 9780385267052
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Verlag: Picador, 2001
ISBN 10: 0312420137 ISBN 13: 9780312420130
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ISBN 13: 9880385267059
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1979
ISBN 10: 0394728440 ISBN 13: 9780394728445
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Verlag: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374102570 ISBN 13: 9780374102579
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.3.
Verlag: Penguin Books, 2002
ISBN 10: 0141187123 ISBN 13: 9780141187129
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Verlag: New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, (1989), 1989
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
Trade paperback. The first publication of these two essays in one paperback volume - the first "Illness as Metaphor" was written in 1978 when Sontag was recovering from cancer; the second was written in 1989 to counter the labeling of AIDS as a plague. 183 pp Very good.
Verlag: Picador, 1990
Anbieter: antikvariat sacher, Malmö, SKÅNE, Schweden
hft. Zustand: As New.
Verlag: St Martins Pr, 2001
ISBN 10: 0312420137 ISBN 13: 9780312420130
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paperback. Zustand: New. First Edition. Brand New.
Verlag: Picador
Anbieter: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, USA
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Verlag: Penguin Books, 1991
ISBN 10: 0140124276 ISBN 13: 9780140124279
Anbieter: High Barn Books, Lancaster, Vereinigtes Königreich
Good+ paperback (light edgewear, pages age-toned, text clean and unmarked). 180 pp Paperback. The picture on this listing page is of the actual book for sale.
Verlag: Debolsillo, 2008
ISBN 10: 8483467801 ISBN 13: 9788483467800
Anbieter: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. translation edition. 208 pages. Spanish language. 7.30x4.90x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Verlag: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2018
ISBN 10: 1538537451 ISBN 13: 9781538537459
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audioCD. Zustand: New.
Verlag: Picador 2001, 2001
Anbieter: Pali, Roma, RM, Italien
Soft Cover. Zustand: New. 8vo, br. ed. 183pp. In 1978 Susan 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. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is--just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment and, it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic. These two essays now published together, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands of patients and caregivers. From the Publisher: Brimming with humane and original ideas about a disease and the modern condition, this classic essay and its sequel -- written 10 years later -- are compassionate exhortations and a liberating event. "Taken together, the two essays are an exemplary demonstration of the power of the intellect in the face of the lethal metaphors of fear." -- The Nation "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Verlag: Anchor, NY, 1989
ISBN 10: 0385267053 ISBN 13: 9780385267052
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Zustand: Near fine. A standout association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "For Oliver [Sacks], with deep love and admiration--Susan. 3/29/90." Uncommon signed, with no other signed copies available as of this writing. Sacks and Sontag were friends and both wrote with deep sophistication about illness, one as a public intellectual and philosopher, the other as an accomplished physician. This volume collects her 1978 celebrated book-length essayIllness as Metaphorand its sequel published a decade later, in 1989,Aids and Its Metaphor.A near fine paperback original (only published in paperback) with light edgewear and toning to pages. Oliver Sacks was a British neurologist that theNew York Timesdubbed "the poet laureate of contemporary medicine." He spent the bulk of his medical career as a professor of neurology at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine. There he began to write about some of his neurology patients (he burned the manuscript of his first book,Ward 23, in a fit of anxiety about his new direction). He went on to publish fourteen books from 1970 to 2015, the year he died also of cancer, most of them with a focus on highly researched clinical anecdotes, including such lauded works asThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat(the main case study of which is a man with "face blindness," something Sacks also suffered from, and which deeply impacted his social interactions) andThe Island of the Colorblind.