Status Updates From Rose's Strategy of Preventi...

Prevention paradox: a preventive measure that brings large benefits to the community offers little to each participating individual.

Disease truly forms a continuum of severity, but its management requires a system of unambiguous labels. The big mistake has been, not the use of dichotomous diagnostics, but to consider the process as being a description of the natural order rather than merely an operational convenience.

"It is better to be healthy than ill or dead. That is the beginning and the end of the only real argument for preventative medicine. It is sufficient."

Society seeks to distance itself from its deviants, either physically [...], or by categorizing them [...], or by denying responsibility for their problems. Yet in truth the deviants are simply the tail of the population's own distribution; they belong to each other and society is one, whether it likes it or not.