abstract art

public health

is concerned with reaching the highest level of the basics.

Abstraction forces you to reach the highest level of the basics. (Alan Soffer)

is a modernist progressive enterprise, drawing on the available expert knowledges, technologies, means of calculation, goal-orientation, enumeration, and surveillance to further the good of members of the public by improving their health status.

A classical modernist approach views public health as a progressive activity, drawing on the available expert knowledges, technologies and means of calculation to further the good of members of the public by improving their health status. It relies upon the setting of goals and objectives and the measurement of 'outcomes' and 'efficacy' (as the current jargon has it). Public health, as a modernist enterprise, depends upon enumeration and surveillance as a means of countering the fear engendered by illness, disease and death, seeking to establish and maintain order in the face of the disorder of ill bodies.

Alan SofferThinkers

Alan Soffer