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Disease Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology...
- Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to…
- Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
- In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent,…
- With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character…
- Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.
- [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of…
- A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
- Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
- Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
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