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Now showing — Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors · 5 works

  • Codes And Metaphors Music · 2010s

    Held here because it strengthens the visible field.

    After-hoursLonging
  • Medicine & Metaphors Music · 2000s

    Held here because it strengthens the visible field.

    After-hoursLonging
  • echoes and metaphors Music · 2010s

    Held here because it strengthens the visible field.

    After-hoursLonging
  • Skins Television · 2000s

    Skins is a British teen drama television series that follows the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol, England, through the two years of sixth form. Its controversial storylines have explored issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness, adolescent sexuality, gender, substance abuse, death, and bullying.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • Illness as Metaphor Essays · 1970s

    In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel that would counter the almost universal l...

    PowerModernityResistance
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  • Illness as Metaphor Essays