CURE Quote
. The prevailing political fashion on both sides of the Atlantic is to be “tough on crime,” with harsher penalties and longer prison sentences. This pleases certain sectors of the voting population, but there is no unambiguous evidence that it reduces crime rates. Rather, we can see it as a backlash against the more liberal attitudes of the 1970s, when crime was regarded as a disease whose cure was understanding and compassion rather than punishment. There is no reason, however, to believe that this earlier approach did any better either
— Philip Ball, Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, 2012-
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Healing, Caring, Curing – Compared
Is healing curing? Is curing healing? Does caring cure? Does it heal? With the conceptual framework of the New Theory of Cure, we can look at these questions in a new light. In October 2023, I published a post on … Continue reading
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