The ordinariness of AIDS: can a disease that tells us so much about ourselves ever be anything but extraordinary?

From: American Scholar | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: Alcabes, Philip | Copyright information

The AIDS epidemic is now 25 years old. Early in the epidemic Susan Sontag forecast a day when AIDS--"the disease most fraught with meaning," she called it--would become an ordinary illness. But can AIDS be ordinary?

Something like ordinariness has happened to cancer, and perhaps that is what Sontag had in mind. Cancer has not changed: if cancer's suffering feels like the "night-side of life," as Sontag put it in Illness as Metaphor, the darkness is no longer secret. The...

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