AIDS and Its Metaphors

by Susan Sontag

Hardcover, 1988

Call number

A ISSU AIDS

Language

English

Tags

CHECKED, A ISSU AIDS, +Social Issues and Events, +AIDS Issues & Events, ***Nonfiction, **Adult Nonfiction, *Adult, health - AIDS/HIV

Description

Gennemgang af de billeder, der bruges til at beskrive sygdommen AIDS og en parallelisering til beskrivelsen af kræft og syfilis, der viser, hvordan meninger og holdninger uden medicinsk dækning vanskeliggør en rimelig sygdomsopfattelse.

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Nominee — 1989)

Genres

Subjects

AIDS (Disease) Social aspects
Metaphor

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