AIDS and its metaphors /

"AIDS brings together two powerful metaphors about illness. First, AIDS develops further the theme (seen earlier in cancer) of disease as invader: the enemy invades and destroys you from within. Thus, AIDS strengthens the use of military metaphors in medicine. The war against cancer is reincarn...

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Main Author:	Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004 (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects. AIDS (Disease) > Public opinion. Metaphor. Métaphore. Sida > Aspect social. 44.02 philosophy and ethics of medicine. Aids Gesellschaft Metapher AIDS. Metaforen. Attitude to Health. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. 10030 > man > 21030 > AIDS > 20030 > ... > 31030 > social aspects AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects Metaphor

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