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“Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.”

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... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have…

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Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

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...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

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Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable.

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But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a…

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With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from…

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It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to…

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There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve…

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Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his…

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The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies…

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Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the…

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The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep…

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