Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House

The book "Illness as Metaphor" includes two important essays by Sontag, "Disease as Metaphor" and "AIDS and Its Metaphors". In the essays, Sontag reflects on and criticizes how diseases such as tuberculosis, AIDS, and cancer are gradually metaphorized in social interpretation, transforming from "just a physical disease" to a moral criticism, and then to a process of political oppression. The essays were first serialized in the "New York Review of Books". Due to the huge response, the two essays were collected and published many times in the following years, becoming classic works of social criticism.