Four partial readings

Mechanism reads the body as a machine to be repaired. Right that the body is a structure and that some failures are mechanical — a bone set, an artery cleared, a tumour excised. Wrong to reduce the body to parts. The body is records maintaining each other by continuous regeneration. Repair the machine and the patient has not recovered.

Holism reads the body as a balance to be restored. Right that the architecture is integrated and every intervention has consequences elsewhere. Wrong to leave balance as a word. Wholeness, harmony, energy — none says what the corridor is or where its walls are.

Principlism reads medicine as the weighing of four principles. Right that a physician who weighs them is doing real work. Wrong to leave them ungrounded. Why four? Why these weights? Autonomy is override. Not harming and helping are the one interior and parasitic contraction. Justice is allocation under finite ground, Chapter Twelve. Not refuted. Relocated.

Wellness reads medicine as the optimisation of life-style. Right that the lowest level is load-bearing. Wrong to locate the responsibility in the individual. Most of the conditions that set sleep, food, movement, stress and exposure are supplied by the structure, not the person. A civilisation that withholds them and then asks the patient to optimise inside their absence is making a category mistake.

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