Metaphors military metaphors when it was discovered that illnesses were caused by pathogens the associated metaphors took on a invasion and pollution aids lends itself to metaphorizing and its descriptions combine two of the most potent plague sontag believes that plague is the principal . Aids and its metaphors susan sontag isbn 9780374102579 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. 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. Aids and its metaphors reviewed by paul robinson jan 22 1989 susan sontags purpose in aids and its metaphors is to show how the way we talk and think about aids makes the disease even