Violence By Gary Slutkin Summary

The video that was displayed in class regarding violence as a contagious disease is an interesting outlook in viewing violence. In the video presented by Gary Slutkin who is an
Epidemiologist, which is a physician who specializes on what causes diseases, how diseases spread and how diseases can be contained. Slutkin began his career in Somalia, and attempted treating Somalians and containing diseases in this area. His experience as a physician is broad; since he spent many years in foreign countries trying to aid in intervening against many epidemic diseases. It is important to discuss his credentials and experiences to be able to analyze and understand his argument, ideas and point of view regarding violence. Violence has existed …show more content…
He compared violence today as a disease that was not understood due to science limitations in the early time periods. The second, he explains that one does not have to fix all the elements of a problem to attack the core issue or make a drastic change. Slukin began noticing similar patterns in violence statistics and maps that he saw with diseases. He also found that what forecast a case of violence is a previous case of violence, which he connected to the flu virus, which if someone got infected with the flu, it was since someone infected them with it. This is where he linked violence as a disease; he also believes violence acts as an infectious disease. Slukin states there are three procedures to inverse epidemics, first is to obstruct transmission, where one discovers and finds first cases. The second is to prevent further spread, which basically means to find other people who were exposed. The third is changing the standard, which would mean a heavy amount of community activities and changing the structure of public