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International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:918-919
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Reprints and Reflections

Commentary: Bernard Shaw’s dilemma: marked by mortality

Sally Peters

University of California, Los Angeles, Writers’ Extension Program, Los Angeles, CA 90024. E-mail: s.peters02@earthlink.net

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By the time of his death in 1950, Bernard Shaw had attained an unprecedented celebrity, much of which revolved around the man as well as the artist. Even as the Nobel laureate and Oscar-winning playwright was revered as a visionary and prophet, he amused with his seeming quirks and eccentricities. But the vegetarian parading in knee breeches was also a hypochondriac who longed for another mode of existence—bodiless, in a spotless ethereal world. As he obsessively envisioned the human body plagued by pestilence, he sought to protect himself from internal and external contamination, converting private concerns into public campaigns.

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