AIDS and its metaphors

Author(s)

• Sontag, Susan

Bibliographic Information

AIDS and its metaphors

Susan Sontag

（Penguin books）

Penguin, 1990, c1989

Note

Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 1989 ; New York : Farrar, Straus & Girroux, 1989

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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• NCID: BA14329664
• ISBN:
  • 0140120408
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth
• Pages/Volumes: 95 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 368
  • NDC8 : 934
  • LCC : RC607.A26
  • DC20 : 362.1042
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Man. AIDS. Social aspects
  • LCSH : AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00474814