Diseases of Development (with Charles C Hughes)

"In conclusion, we firmly assert that programs of economic or agricultural development, population relocation, industrial construction, or any program which either deliberately or inadvertently changes pre-existing relationships between man and any aspect of his environment must be viewed from the outset in an ecologic framework. We must realize the serious hidden costs of a new "ecologic contract" between man and his surroundings. Perhaps it would be useful for public health specialists to start talking about a new category of diseases analogous to the "iatrogenic" diseases known in medicine. Such diseases could be called the "diseases of development" and would consist of those pathological conditions which are based on the usually unanticipated consequences of the implementation of developmental schemes." - closing paragraph in "The Role of Technological Development in Promoting Disease in Africa." The Careless Technology: Ecology and International Development, ed. by M.T. Farvar and John P. Milton. Garden City: Natural History Press, 1972.

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