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Susan Sontag

This person is the author of the book.

Thomas Mann

This person was a German writer. Tuberculosis is a recurring theme in his novels and, therefore, he created many stereotypes of the disease.

Hans Castorp

This character was the protagonist in the novel The Magic Mountain.

Gustav von Aschenbach

This character was the protagonist in the novel Death in Venice.

John Keats

This person was a Romantic writer who romanticized TB. He died of tuberculosis and wrote about it in his letters and his poetry.

Georg Groddeck

This person was a psychoanalyst who could not understand disease as a physical problem and assumed disease had to be the result of psychological processes.

Wilhelm Reich

This person was a psychoanalyst who defined cancer as “a disease following emotional resignation” (23).

Katherine Mansfield

This character was an early twentieth-century American writer diagnosed with cancer. She believed her cancer was spiritual...

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