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“…particularly dreaded diseases are envisaged as an alien ‘other,’ as enemies are in modern war; and the move from the demonization of the illness to the attribution of fault to the patient is an inevitable one, no matter if patients are thought of as victims. Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.”

Rereading

i've never finished a book so quick in my life bro
im soooooo into this
for any virologists, immunologists, biochemists and molecular biologists, please please read this!! this book is this greatest! sontag is so exact omg