Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with… — Susan Sontag · Skopia

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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "victims".

1989

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Sontag, Susan. AIDS and its Metaphors. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989, ch. 1.

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