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From Smallpox to SARS: Is the Past Prologue?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

John J. Hamre ,
James G. Young  and
Mark Shurtleff
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I am really quite honored to have a chance to be here. Also let me say how much I appreciate what all of you public health professionals do. One of the unfortunate dimensions of modern American life is that we have chosen to privatize all aspects of life. People do not live on their front porches anymore and watch their neighbors in the evening. They go out back in their wall-enclosed backyards. And we have done the same with medicine.

Medicine has been privatized in America. We have lost a sense of the public obligations of health and hygiene and sanitation. So I thank you for keeping the flame alive on what we clearly now know is the far bigger issue of health care in modern society.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 31 , Issue S4 , Winter 2003 , pp. 13 - 20
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2003

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