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...