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In 1978 Susan 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. "Susan Sontag's  Illness as Metaphor  was the  first to point out the accusatory side of the metaphors of empowerment that seek to enlist the patient's will to resist disease.  It is largely as a result of her work that the how-to health books avoid the blame-ridden term  'cancer personality'  and speak more soothingly of  'disea

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2018.1484740 The article linked above has a number of articles LINKED to it that you may find useful in your writing. Use this article as your research library. You should use at least one of these linked articles in your final paper. Here is the alternative final assignment again. Ethnographic Analysis of the Corona Virus: Participant Observation and Social Distancing Participant observation becomes a challenge in situations of quarantine and social distancing. However, there are many resources which may be observed from afar. The final assignment will require that you do what all ethnographers do…be FLEXIBLE and study the ethnographic phenomena which present themselves to you: the cultural response to the COVID-19 virus. Your fieldsite will be the following: ·       Social media ·       Media (television news sources, talk shows, any non-fictional broadcast) ·       Online forums ·       Yourself, social interac

Listening to Language and Translating What it Has to say About Culture: Take a WORD/PHRASE from your life and "define" it in terms of meaning and usage. give actual examples of the word in usage and then "squeeze the culture" out of it. Discuss your word with your partner.