AIDS and Its Metaphors is the companion book to Illness as Metaphor, also by Susan Sontag. While Illness as Metaphor drew on her experiences as a cancer patient and focused on the various metaphors that we attribute to cancer, AIDS and Its Metaphors extends this argument to the AIDS crisis. Both books explore how attitudes to disease are formed in society, and attempt to deconstruct them. AIDS and Its Metaphors begins with the line, "Rereading Illness as a Metaphor now, I thought:" and continues with Sontag’s reactions to her earlier work.
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