AIDS and Its Metaphors

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AIDS and Its Metaphors

Author	Susan Sontag
Language	English
Subject	AIDS, social stigma
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date	1989
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	95
ISBN	978-0-374-10257-9
OCLC	18167012
Preceded by	Illness as Metaphor

AIDS and Its Metaphors is a 1989 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag. In this companion book to her Illness as Metaphor (1978), Sontag extends her arguments about the metaphors attributed to cancer to the AIDS crisis. Sontag explores how attitudes to disease are formed in society, and attempts to deconstruct them.