The history

The Hippocratic tradition read the body as a system that does most of its own healing, with the physician supporting rather than overriding. First, do no harm. Structurally precise: intervention itself has a cost, to be weighed against what it corrects.

The seventeenth century read the body as clockwork. The late nineteenth read disease as invasion. The mid-twentieth read pathology at the molecular layer. Each added resolution. None displaced the question.

In the late twentieth century the question took its dominant form. Four principles. Autonomy. Beneficence. Non-maleficence. Justice. Real things, all four. Stipulated, all four. This chapter derives them, and one thing they do not name.

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

The same page on the420code.org: the420code.org/models/applications/05-medicine-and-the-viability-corridor/