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    Ebola… again: What have we learned?

    By Alicia Ely Yamin As Susan Sontag eloquently noted decades ago, illness conjures metaphors that reveal a great deal about how we think about, and, in turn, address them. None more so than the lethal Ebola, which monstrously disfigures bodies before killing the infected person and spreading rapidly through the routines of everyday life. In…

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  • Read more: Art Caplan: The Real Reasons for Worrying About Ebola

    Art Caplan: The Real Reasons for Worrying About Ebola

    Art Caplan has a new opinion piece on NBC News responding to the recent media coverage of Ebola. He makes the case that although this has been the worst recorded outbreak of the disease, citizens of developed countries have little reason to panic: Ebola is not going to run amok in downtown Boston, Cape May or Myrtle Beach or…