Zoe Wheeler

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In recent years some of the onus of cancer has been lifted by the emergence of a disease whose charge of stigmatization, whose capacity to create spoiled identity, is far greater. It seems that societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its “victims,” but it is hard to be obsessed with more than one.
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
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