Noor’s Reviews > Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors > Status Update

With the new mobility (social and geographical) made possible in the eighteenth century, worth and station were not given; they must be asserted. They were asserted through new notions about clothes ("fashion") and new attitudes towards illness. Both clothes (the outer garment of the body) and illness (a kind of interior decor of the body) became tropes for new attitudes toward the self.