Disease is not of the body but of the place.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.

Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.

Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.

Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.

’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.