“The epidemic as we imagine it is marked more subtly by an ambivalence about causes. An epidemic must be attributed to people who are disliked or activities that are disdained.”
“AIDS is the main example of our day, blamed on homosexuality, and, sometimes, sexual license in general. As kidney disease, Alzheimer’s, and other conditions that are increasingly common causes of debilitation and death but are never called “epidemics” remind us, when there is nobody to blame, we do not apply the epidemic label.”
- from Dread (end of Chapter 2), by Philip Alcabes
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I see you got yourself a copy! :)
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