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6. Infectious Diseases: Conquest or Coexistence?

Author : Taro Yamamoto

Published in: Resilience and Human History

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

The twenty-first century is considered to be one in which the development of medical science and a science of infectious diseases based on “coexistence” is being sought. However, coexistence will incur costs. We do not have a prescription for coping with the problem at hand. However, I am certain without question that “coexistence” is the direction to which we should be advancing. As there is no such thing as complete adaptation and as we learn from history that a complete adaptation does not go beyond raising the curtain for the next tragedy, coexistence may possibly be something that must be sought as an act of compromise, which “cannot be said to be comfortable.”

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Metadata
Title
Infectious Diseases: Conquest or Coexistence?
Author
Taro Yamamoto
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
Resilience and Human History

Print ISBN: 978-981-15-4090-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-15-4091-2

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4091-2_6