When Crafting Public Health Policy, the Perfect Shouldn’t Be the Enemy of the Good
Bill of Health: Harvard Law
Mar 9, 2023
Daniel Goldberg, JD, PhD argues that the premise of harm reduction rests on the idea that the perfect ought not be the enemy of the good. We live in a non-ideal world and public health interventions must be designed and implemented with such imperfections in mind.
Utopian ideals are important insofar as they frame the state of play between our current world and the destinations that we are trying to reach. However, the map is not the territory; clinging too much to a plan even when real-world conditions frustrate the ideal journey may leave travelers lost in the wilderness. Read article>>