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: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780789000040
Subjects: HIV / AIDS; Psychiatry; Medical; Aids (Psychosocial Aspects); Sociology; United States; Political activists; AIDS & HIV; Gay Studies; Health Care Delivery; AIDS (Disease) in mass media; AIDS (Disease); Social aspects
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.