Volume 35, Number 16 · October 27, 1988
AIDS and Its Metaphors
By Susan Sontag
'Plague' is the principal metaphor by which the AIDS epidemic is understood. And because of AIDS, the popular misidentification of cancer as an epidemic, even a plague, seems to be receding: AIDS has helped to divest cancer of much of its aura of shame, of the unspeakable.
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