An illness
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Mike Nichols passed away in November of 2014. He did not have a previous illness listed, but passed away from a heart attack.
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Illness as Metaphor was created in 1978.
The ISBN of Illness as Metaphor is 9780374174439.
Illness as Metaphor has 87 pages.
susan sontag
An illness
NEIL PICKERING has written: 'METAPHOR OF MENTAL ILLNESS'
Answer Illness as Metaphor was a 1978 book by the American Writer Susan Sontag. The title refers to various myths and metaphors surrounding some illnesses, particularly cancer, and how these may increase the patient's suffering and / or prevent proper treatment.
Shirley M. Baldwin has written: 'First aid for the office and workplace' -- subject(s): First aid in illness and injury, Handbooks, manuals, Occupational diseases
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Certainly. Consider Cancer and tobacco addiction.
Thomas Szasz is famous for opposing the concept of mental illness, and the institution of state psychiatry. He says that all mental illness is merely a metaphor for how society views certain behaviours. In his most well known work "The Myth of Mental Illness," he outlined how the concept of mental illness is borne not from science but from moral disgust or opposition.
A terminal illness is one that cannot be cured or effectively treated and carries a likely prognosis of death. Mental illnesses would not be considered terminal as they are not physical in nature, and therefor not cause death by one simply having the illness.