As it progresses, its author quotes Wilhelm Reich on the connection between National Socialism's persecution of Jews and the fear of syphilis.
The final chapter discusses the depiction of the city as a living organism in Frank Lloyd Wright's writings and concludes that things seem to be changing for the better. Another section discusses Saint-Sa?s' assertion that being pale and gaunt is fashionable. As it progresses, its author quotes Wilhelm Reich on the connection between National Socialism's persecution of Jews and the fear of syphilis. Much of the first section focuses on the artistic depiction of tuberculosis, which the author compares to the current obsession with cancer. First published as three long essays in the New York Review of Books in 1978, its author would write a sequel in 1989 that addresses AIDS. FTP, identify this work by Susan Sontag which seeks to debunk the Romantic instinct to aestheticize being sick.
The final chapter discusses the depiction of the city as a living organism in Frank Lloyd Wright's writings and concludes that things seem to be changing for the better.
"Illness as Metaphor"