social disease

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William Osler, often described as the father of modern medicine, put it like this: “Tuberculosis is a social disease with a medical aspect.”

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025

Antisemitism, like Anti-Arabism and racism, is a social disease that can be confronted only by us standing together, Syrian- and Israeli-sympathizing Americans alike.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022

I wanted to help make a point together with all my fellow Argentines that misogyny is a social disease and that we are ready to fight to erradicate it.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2016

PC, though, is just the symptom of a more virulent social disease.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 6, 2016

The evil grew worse rather than better, and by the time of the great Governor Cochrane, in 1825, it had assumed the form of an inveterate social disease.

From The Story of Newfoundland by Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of