Death
In 1928, Noguchi traveled to Africa in an attempt to prove his findings about yellow fever. While working in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) he died from yellow fever on May 21, 1928, his last words being "I don't understand."
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“We achieve “active” mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.”
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