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Bounded and beastly.(The Age of Immunology: Conceiving a Future in an Alienating World)(Book review)
The Age of Immunology: Conceiving a Future in an Alienating World, by A. David Napier; University of Chicago Press, 2003, about $90.
AS SUSAN SONTAG pointed out several years ago in her book Illness and Metaphor (1978), Western medicine and its therapies have an affinity for military metaphors. Not only does disease and its treatment get kitted out with the latest weaponry, "but the disease itself is conceived as the enemy on which society wages war". Throughout the hygienic nineteenth century, metaphors for disease became steadily more lurid, melodramatic and hard-nosed, until the term itself stood as a synonym for "unnatural".
The use of such metaphors ...
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