Geometric Medicine

Part of the Geometric Series by A.H. Bowers.

Chapters

  1. Chapter 1: The QALY Trap
  2. Chapter 2: Triage as Forced Contraction
  3. Chapter 3: A Brief History of Medical Ethics, Geometrically
  4. Chapter 4: The Clinical Decision Complex
  5. Chapter 5: The QALY Irrecoverability Theorem
  6. Chapter 6: Clinical Reasoning as A* Pathfinding
  7. Chapter 7: Clinical Heuristics and the $\varepsilon$-Admissibility Spectrum
  8. Chapter 8: Informed Consent as Gauge Invariance
  9. Chapter 9: Clinical Geodesics in Practice
  10. Chapter 10: Pandemic Triage as Manifold Allocation
  11. Chapter 11: Vaccine Allocation, Organ Transplant, and the Geometry of Scarcity
  12. Chapter 12: The Clinical Bond Index and Structural Healthcare Injustice
  13. Appendix A: Mathematical Prerequisites
  14. Appendix B: Code Walkthrough
  15. Appendix C: Clinical Vignettes for Classroom and Discussion Use
  16. Appendix D: Notation and Conventions