Far from viewing consumption as a romantic, even glamorous disease, an affliction of emotionally enhanced or refined beings, Sontag, steadfastly refusing to idealize the disease, observed that the attaching to consumption eventually diminished as science clarified the cause of the illness, and as treatment became first possible and then routine.
a. distinction
b. cachet
c. therapy
d. idiosyncrasy
e. relevance
f. duties
