AIDS and Its Metaphors Quotes Flashcards
The temporal nature of the disease?
It is ‘progressive, a disease of time’
They question how they got the disease?
‘Few wonder, Why me?’
How getting the disease is seen?
Many think that getting the disease from sexual practises or sharing needles is committing ‘a kind of inadvertent suicide’
She talks about her cancer diagnosis?
She invokes her ‘gloomy prognosis’
The metaphors surrounding other illnesses?
Sontag asserts that society regularly invokes ‘military metaphors’, suggesting that ‘efforts to reduce mortality from a given disease are called a fight, a struggle, a war’
The metaphor by which AIDS is understood?
‘”Plague” is the principal metaphor by which the AIDS epidemic is understood’
The effect of the plague metaphor?
This metaphor has been used to describe ’the highest standard of collective calamity, evil, scourge’
She quotes the American Baptist pastor?
Jerry Falwell suggests the generic diagnosis ’AIDS is God’s judgement on a society that does not live by His rules’
The effect of military metaphors?
‘contribute to the stigmatising of certain illnesses and, by extension, of those who are ill’
Sontag’s opinion on metaphors?
‘The metaphors and myths, I was convinced, kill’
How we should perceive illnesses?
‘The body is not a battlefield. The ill are neither unavoidable casualties nor the enemy’
