Monday, May 11, 2009

Let's not panic over the pandemic-lets just focus on global poverty

". . .we should not lose focus on the fact that nothing will go further to contain the spread of disease than a healthy population with access to health care."
- Priscilla Wald

Priscilla Wald visited both the Narrative Medicine Rounds and the Narrative Genetics seminar last week. As a poet, I was inspired by her deft understanding of the work metaphors do in influencing global policy, and have found myself referencing her work in conversations with friends outside the literature and medicine community.
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Let's not panic over the pandemic-lets just focus on global poverty

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