Solutionism: are all healthcare issues transparent and self-evident processes that can be easily optimized, if only the right algorithms are in place?

I've ordered this book:  "To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism" by Evgeny Morozov.I've read some excerpts prior to its delivery and find them fascinating.  Emphases mine:... Alas, all too often, this never-ending quest to ameliorate—or what the Canadian anthropologist Tania Murray Li, writing in a very different context, has called “the will to improve”—is shortsighted and only perfunctorily interested in the activity for which improvement is sought. Recasting all complex social situations either as neatly defined problems with definite, computable solutions or as transparent and self-evident processes that can be easily optimized—if only the right algorithms are in place!—this quest is likely to have unexpected consequences that could eventually cause more damage than the problems they seek to address.I call the ideology that legitimizes and sanctions such aspirations “solutionism.” I borrow this unabashedly pejorative term from the world of architecture and urban planning, where it has come to refer to an unhealthy preoccupation with sexy, monumental, and narrow-minded solutions—the kind of stuff that wows audiences at TED Conferences—to problems that are extremely complex, fluid, and contentious. These are the kinds of problems that, on careful examination, do not have to be defined in the singular and all-encompassing ways that “solutionists” have defined them; what’s contentious, then, is n...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Ddulite solutionism Evgeny Morozov Source Type: blogs