Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Is It Time to Treat Violence Like a Contagious Disease? | Wired Science | Wired.com

Is It Time to Treat Violence Like a Contagious Disease? | Wired Science | Wired.com:

"“It’s extremely important to understand this differently than the way we’ve been understanding it,” said Gary Slutkin, a University of Chicago epidemiologist who founded Cure Violence, an anti-violence organization that treats violence as contagion. “We need to understand this as a biological health matter and an epidemiologic process.”"

Haven't heard this argument before.

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