Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag
Signed, First Edition
[1978] Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
In unclipped dust jacket. 
Signed on front free endpaper by Susan Sontag.
 
Condition:
 
The Dust Jacket is in Very Good condition and in protective mylar. Over the lower of the spine, there is a smudge on the dust jacket. 
Book: Very Good condition. Light foxing noted on the outside edges of closed pagers. Inside, the pages are crisp and clean.
 
About this book
 
Publisher's Description:
In 1978, 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.
 
Illness as Metaphor has 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.