Ch. 1. Medical ontology -- Ch. 2. The question never asked -- Ch. 3. The organic solution -- Ch. 4. The motive faculty of the soul -- Ch. 5. Pascal's question -- Ch. 6. The path not taken -- Ch. 7. Sciences of complexity -- Ch. 8. Post-cartesian thought world -- Ch. 9. National Institute of Warts and All -- Ch. 10. The ghost in the machine -- Ch. 11. Founding myth -- Ch. 12. The shadow of subjectivity -- Ch. 13. The anxious heart -- Ch. 14. Late night thoughts while listening to Mahler -- Ch. 15. Complementary medicine -- Ch. 16. For want of a vocabulary -- Ch. 17. The birth of psychobiology -- Ch. 18. Paradigm shift -- Ch. 19. The placebo meta-effect and infomedical science -- Ch. 20. Nature as self-referential and biocultural medicine -- Ch. 21. The metaphysical foundations of modern science -- Ch. 22. The primordial fireball, a work in progress? -- Ch. 23. Humanizing medical science: the systems loop -- Ch. 24. Subjectivity and the messengers of information.