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Illness as a Metaphor
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Susan Sontag
Illness as a Metaphor
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978
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Sontag's intriguing study of the predilection for psychological explanations of disease, particularly cancer, as in the past with tuberculosis.
She argues that this magical form of thinking is a kind of sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of 'spirit' over matter.