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
In a description recently given of the "moral, religious, and social disease" which broke out A.D.
From The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Gamble, Eliza Burt