title: Medicine and the arts. Commentary on Illness as Metaphor [excerpt] by Susan Sontag.
authors.affiliation: Ms. Karimi is a second-year medical student, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut; e-mail: karimi@student.uchc.edu.
authors.forename: Shirin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Karimi
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D019365:Metaphor; D063545:Personal Narratives as Topic; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations