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Susan Sontag

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AIDS and Its Metaphors

Penguin Books Ltd (Feb 22, 1990)

0140120408

| Paperback

95 pages | 130 x 200 mm

€ 4.00 | Value: € 10.32

Dewey 362.1042

LC Classification RC607 .A26

Genre

Society, Politics & Philosophy

Subject

AIDS (Disease) - Social Aspects

Plot

A sequel, or extended afterthought in the form of an essay, to Susan Sontag's book "Illness as Metaphor", in the light of AIDS. The author analyzes the way society has viewed AIDS, as divine retribution, plague or total war, and dispels racist ideas that AIDS originates from deepest Africa.