![]() ![]() Health care, in particular Catholic health care with its mission to care for the poor and vulnerable, must continue to plan responses to small outbreaks of violence and disease, as well as larger scale disasters caused by them. Harm inflicted on individuals from guns or germs can be random however, in both cases there are unequal burdens on different populations and they are heavily influenced by social determinants. It was not by accident that Diamond included "guns" and "germs" as main characters in his book.Īlthough civilization has progressed on many fronts, particularly in the treatment of trauma and infectious diseases, guns, violence and germs continue to plague our communities. ![]() In his classic book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond argues that the development of civilizations and their ascendency in the world was mostly influenced by geography, climate and access to natural resources, which gave greater protection from disease and improved the probability of succeeding. ![]()
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