Volume 25, Number 12 · July 20, 1978

Infirmary Blues

By Nigel Dennis
Illness as Metaphor
by Susan Sontag

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 88 pp., $5.95

The ideas behind this inflammatory broadside (it is only eighty-eight pages) are stated plainly on an introductory page:



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