The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic

A bold new approach for eliminating the world's most dangerous epidemic-using the same epidemic control playbook that rid the world of other contagious diseases.

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 a disease: one that enters the brain and infects people, communities, and countries via the same pro...