The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Printer-friendly version| Title | The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Pub Year | 2008 |
| Authors | Klein, N. |
| Publisher | Picador |
| Keywords | psychic cancer |
| Notes |
psychic cancer"'The use of cancer in political discourse encourages fatalism and justifies "severe" measures--as well as strongly reinforcing the widespread notion that the disease is necessarily fatal. The concept of disease is never innocent. But it could be argued that the cancer metaphors are in themselves implicitly genocidal.' --Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977" (p. 177) |
| URL | http://books.google.com/books?id=PwHUAq5LPOQC |