The Importance of Using Metaphors to Understand Illness and Disease

Susan Sontag's 1978 book called Illness as Metaphor was to get us to picture this use of the metaphor applied to the way we see illness and disease. She starts by making a case for what's at stake when we uncritically use metaphors. In actuality, there is nothing about your mind or the complexity of your experience moment to moment that is anything like a machine.