Signifying the Pandemics: Metaphors of AIDS, Cancer, and Heart Disease

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 456-476

  Weiss, Meira ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

AIDS; Cancer; Heart disease; Metaphorization; Semiotics

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; NEOPLASM; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031299062     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.1997.11.4.456     Document Type: Article

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