Tuning Up

The Pathogen of Hate

It’s time we took a medical approach to dealing with a different epidemic

By Harriet A. Washington | September 1, 2022
A memorial of 40,000 white flowers on the National Mall honors victims who lost their lives to gun violence. (Geoff Livingston/Flickr)
A memorial of 40,000 white flowers on the National Mall honors victims who lost their lives to gun violence. (Geoff Livingston/Flickr)
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Harriet A. Washington, the author of Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We “Catch” Mental Illness and Medical Apartheid, is a lecturer in bioethics at Columbia University.

 

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