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Henry T. Wasserman, MD, MPH
Coral Gables, Fla

JAMA. 1992;267(23):3149.

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To the Editor.

—In this year of the 500th anniversary of the Columbus' landing in America, I'd like to offer some ideas on violence in the Americas, rather than just violence in the United States.

I am a public health physician who was born and raised in Latin America, but I have had all of my medical training in the United States.

It seems to me that with an ethnocentric view of sociological problems in this country, it is easy to forget the violent effects of our own society on neighboring countries. Thus, it is common to read nowadays¹ about the epidemiology of homicide, rape, suicide, and abuse of elders, spouses, and children.

While all of these are problems that affect all societies, is it not true that maybe there is another type of violence, which we could describe as the violence of one culture against another? What I . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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