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Illness As Metaphor
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Illness As Metaphor written by Susan Sontag and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
Illness As Metaphor
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Illness As Metaphor written by Susan Sontag and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
Illness As Metaphor
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Illness As Metaphor written by Susan Sontag and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Cancer categories.
"In this penetrating analysis of the social attitudes toward various major illnesses - chiefly tuberculosis, the scourge of the 19th century, and cancer, the terror of our own - Susan Sontag demonstrates that "illness is not a metaphor" and shows why "the healthiest way of being ill is one purified of metaphoric thinking." Once tuberculosis was identified as a bacterial infection, it ceased to be a symbol of a romantic fading away or of a sensitive or artistic temperament, and it could be treated and cured. Similarly, we must today cease to think of cancer as a mark of doom, a punishment or a sign of a repressed personality, and recognize it for what it is: one disease among many and often receptive to treatment." -- from back cover.
Illness As Metaphor And Aids And Its Metaphors
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-01-31
Illness As Metaphor And Aids And Its Metaphors written by Susan Sontag and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-31 with Medical categories.
In l978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor. A cancer patient herself at the time, she shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the 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 is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment, and highly curable, if good treatment is found early enough. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatised disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote Aids and its Metaphors, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.
Illness As Metaphor
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Author : Sontag, S.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Illness As Metaphor written by Sontag, S. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Cancer in literature categories.
Aids And Its Metaphors
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Aids And Its Metaphors written by Susan Sontag and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with AIDS (Disease) categories.
Visceral
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Author : Maia Dolphin-Krute
language : en
Publisher: punctum books
Release Date : 2017
Visceral written by Maia Dolphin-Krute and has been published by punctum books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Medical categories.
Memoirs about being sick are popular and everywhere and only ever contribute to pop narratives of illness as a single event or heroic struggle or journey. Visceral: Essays on Illness as Metaphor is not that. Visceral, to the extent that it is a memoir, is a record not of illness but of the research project being sick became. While rooted firmly in critical disability and queer practices, the use of personal narratives opens these approaches up to new ways of writing the body-ultimately a body that is at once theoretical and unavoidably physical. A body where everything is visceral, so theory must be too. From the gothic networks of healthcare bureaucracy and hospital philanthropy to the proliferation of wellness media, off-label usage of drugs, and running off to live a life with, these essays move fluidly through theoretical and physical anger, curiosity and surprise. Arguing for disability rights that attend to the theoretical as much as the physical, this is Illness Not As Metaphor, Being Sick and Time, and The Body in Actual Pain as one. A sick body of text that is-and is not-in direct correspondence to an actual sick body, Visceral is an unrelenting examination of chronic illness that turns towards the theoretical only to find itself in the realms of the biological and autobiographical: because how much theory can a body take?
The Metaphor Of Mental Illness
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Author : Neil Pickering
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006
The Metaphor Of Mental Illness written by Neil Pickering and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Medical categories.
Despite the currency of the notion of mental illness, there are those who take the radical line that it is a fabrication. This work takes the sceptical line seriously and puts forward a new view on mental illness and proposes a resolution of issues and disputes in the field.
Metaphor Cancer And The End Of Life
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Author : Elena Semino
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-28
Metaphor Cancer And The End Of Life written by Elena Semino and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in the UK. It focuses on metaphor as a central linguistic and cognitive tool that is frequently used to talk and think about sensitive and subjective experiences, such as illness, emotions, death, and dying, and that can both help and hinder communication and well-being, depending on how it is used. The book centers on a combination of qualitative analyses and innovative corpus linguistic methods. This methodological assemblage was applied to the systematic study of the metaphors used in a 1.5-million-word corpus. The corpus consists of interviews with, and online forum posts written by, members of three stakeholder groups, namely: patients diagnosed with advanced cancer; unpaid carers looking after a relative with a diagnosis of advanced cancer; and healthcare professionals. The book presents a range of qualitative and quantitative findings that have implications for: metaphor theory and analysis; corpus linguistic and computational approaches to metaphor; and training and practice in cancer care and hospice, palliative and end-of-life care.
Visual Metaphor And Embodiment In Graphic Illness Narratives
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Author : Elisabeth El Refaie
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019-01-10
Visual Metaphor And Embodiment In Graphic Illness Narratives written by Elisabeth El Refaie and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-10 with Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc categories.
Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies. Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), which dominates the field of contemporary metaphor studies, is centered on this claim. According to this theory, correlations in the way the world is perceived in early childhood (e.g., happy/good is up, understanding is seeing) persist in our conceptual system, influencing our thoughts throughout life at a mostly unconscious level. What happens, though, when ordinary embodied experience is disrupted by illness? In this book, Elisabeth El Refaie explores how metaphors change according to our body's alteration due to disease. She analyzes visual metaphor in thirty-five graphic illness narratives (book-length stories about disease in the comics medium), re-examining embodiment in traditional CMT and proposing the notion of "dynamic embodiment." Building on recent strands of research within CMT and engaging relevant concepts from phenomenology, psychology, semiotics, and media studies, El Refaie demonstrates how the experience of our own bodies is constantly adjusting to changes in our individual states of health, socio-cultural practices, and the modes and media by which we communicate. This fundamentally interdisciplinary work also proposes a novel classification system of visual metaphor, based on a three-way distinction between pictorial, spatial, and stylistic metaphors. This approach will enable readers to advance knowledge and understanding of phenomena involved in shaping our everyday thoughts, interactions, and behavior.