Social Engineering.
Exhibit A:
Fresh from fighting TB and AIDS in Africa, Gary Slutkin returned to his hometown of Chicago to discover epidemic levels of violence. Why not combat this social ill with the tools and tactics usually deployed against viral evils?
With strong confirming studies from several universities and now the U.S. Dept. of Justice the CEASEFIRE (video) program is poised to move from a few Chicago suburbs to a much grander scale. Or at least we hope so -- both for its immediately benevolent effects and its illustrative power as an example of progressive social engineering enabled by hybridized genres of research.
The formal presentation of destructive social behavior provides numerous strong correlations to the problems of disease control -- similar graphs of transmission, similiar public response and the same kind of philosophical resistance which plagued our attempts to deal with... well, the plague.
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