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In perhaps the most widely-read cultural discussion about what HIV/AIDS "means," Susan Sontag laments the use of the "military metaphor" in understanding and fighting disease: AIDS marks a turning point in current attitudes toward illness and medicine, as well as toward sexuality and catastrophe.
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noninfected inmates,
seropositive inmates,
media logic,
anonymous testing,
constructed populations,
correctional policy,
housing assignments,
county prison,
mainstream news media,
correctional staff,
organizational sources,
injection drug users
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The Haworth Press,
Ryan White Act,
United States,
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The Haworth Document Delivery Service,
Government Printing Office,
New England Journal of Medicine,
American College Health Association,
Journal of Homosexuality,
Native Americans,
Harrington Park Press,
Inglefinger Rule,
University of California Press,
National Council,
North Dakota,
American Council,
District of Columbia,
National Research Council,
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