The end of violence eliminating the world's most dangerous epidemic
"Violence is often regarded as an unavoidable fact of life. The truth is far more hopeful: violence is a disease that can be cured. Here, epidemiologist and violence prevention specialist Dr. Gary Slutkin reclassifies violence as a disease: one that enters the brain and infects people, communities,...
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2026.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part one: Infection. Assessment and diagnosis
- Making sense of "senseless violence"
- Part two: Transmission. Your brain on violence
- Exposure
- Susceptibility
- Part three: Interruption and elimination. Interrupting spread
- Norms and systems
- Infections of the state
- Epilogue: A world without fear
- Action plan. What you can do to end violence now: action plan for individuals, families, and communities.
