Editorial September 22, 1997 ISSUE

Consent to health—and spread it

Barbara M. Vining

People have a way of repeating what they've heard. A tune. An advertising slogan. A piece of news. Sometimes we're surprised to find ourselves repeating in thought, and even aloud, things we hadn't realized we'd taken in. And sometimes these are things we wouldn't have played host to if we had been alert to question what we were hearing.

Health is one of the things we hear a lot of talk about. Or, rather, we hear a lot about disease, and about its possible causes and cures. And have you noticed how, with all the talk about a particular disease, that disease then becomes "popular," not only in human thought but in experience?

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