Abstract
At the present time, and throughout the twentieth century, disease in the Western world has been primarily constituted by the imagery of war. That this is so can be made clear by even the most cursory look at the language by which illness is made a presence among us: we say, for example, that it strikes or attacks; that it invades and spreads within us; that it mobilizes the body's defenses, setting in motion a natural resistance to one or another foreign substance. One speaks also of how it can be detected, often through various warning signs; how it may be defeated or killed by the best of therapies; finally, how it therefore demands the best effort from the front lines of research and technology, from scientists engaged in the hunt for magic bullets, the crusade for new knowledge, the wars declared on diseases like cancer and AIDS.
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