Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor.
Metaphors help to stigmatize the ill, as moral judgement slips backwards from literary invocations of the disease to taint the sufferer.
“[I]llness is not a metaphor, and … the most truthful way of regarding illness – and the healthiest way of being ill – is one most purified of, most resistant to, metaphoric thinking.”
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