AIDS and Its Metaphors (Magill’s Literary Annual 1990)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Sontag
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Cultural essay
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Culture, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Science or scientists, Doctors, Lesbianism or lesbians, AIDS, Diseases, Epidemics, Viruses
In the course of a routine checkup in 1975, Susan Sontag learned that she had cancer. Her doctors informed her that she would probably be dead within two years; they told her son that she had six months. Sontag responded by reading everything that she could find about her illness, consulting doctors in America and Europe, and eventually going to France for treatment that was not then available in the United States. After two and half years, a mastectomy, four other operations, and stringent doses of chemotherapy in hospitals in the United States and abroad, she recovered.She also...
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