Illness without Etiology: Perpetuating Social Dysfunction and Leviathan’s Bloody Tithe

The scientist from “The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek” by Jenny Wagner

Patient: Doctor, Doctor! It hurts when I do this!
Doctor: Then don’t do that.

‘Etiology’ is one of those five dollar words that bundles together a number of important concepts, and it’s part of the conceptual core of the sort of arguments I’m making lately about chronic dysfunction in the modern world; both individually, and on a societal level.

‘Etiology’ refers to the source of disease, the root cause of the symptoms. For i...