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Illness as Metaphor

Susan Sontag

Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag, in which she challenges the victim-blaming in the language often used to describe diseases and those who suffer from them.

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“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”

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