Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors
Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors
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以疾病为比喻；
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1990
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S. Sontag
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作者：
S. Sontag
1978年，苏珊·桑塔格写了一本名为《疾病的隐喻》的经典之作，被《新闻周刊》描述为“那个时代最解放的书之一。”桑塔格在写这本书时也是一名癌症患者，她展示了围绕某些疾病，特别是癌症的隐喻和神话是如何极大地增加了患者的痛苦，并经常阻碍他们寻求适当的治疗。通过揭开围绕癌症的幻想的神秘面纱，桑塔格展示了癌症的本质--只是一种疾病。她认为，癌症不是一种诅咒，也不是一种惩罚，当然也不是一种尴尬，如果遵循良好的治疗，它是高度可以治愈的。近十年后，随着一种新的、被污名化的疾病的爆发，充满了神秘和惩罚性的比喻，桑塔格写了一本《疾病》的续集作为比喻，将前一本书的论点延伸到艾滋病大流行。这两篇文章现在一起出版，《疾病》《作为隐喻》和《艾滋病及其隐喻》已被翻译成多种语言，并继续对医疗专业人员的思维，尤其是对成千上万患者和护理人员的生活产生巨大影响。
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.