Activism And Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis (Monograph Published Simultaneously As the Journal of Homosexuality , Vol 32, No 3-4) (Monograph Published ... Journal of Homosexuality , Vol 32, No 3-4)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781560230908
Subjects: AIDS: social aspects; Gay & Lesbian studies; United States; Immunology; Diseases - AIDS & HIV; Medical; Gender Studies; Sociology; Social aspects; Gay Studies; AIDS (Disease) in mass media; AIDS & HIV; AIDS (Disease); Political activists
First sentence: In perhaps the most widely-read cultural discussion about what HIV/AIDS "means," Susan Sontag laments the use of the "military metaphor" in understanding and fighting disease: AIDS marks a turning point in current attitudes toward illness and medicine, as well as toward sexuality and catastrophe.