Where medicine went wrong : rediscovering the path to complexity /

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Where Medicine Went Wrong explores how the idea of an average value has been misapplied to medical phenomena, distorted understanding and lead to flawed medical decisions. Through new insights into the science of complexity, traditional physiology is replaced with fractal physiology, in which variab...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: West, Bruce J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2006.
Colección:Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences ; v. 11.
Temas:
Medicine > Philosophy.
Fractals.
Human physiology.
Health status indicators.
Nonlinear theories.
Medical care.
Biological models.
Mathematics.
Mathematical models.
Philosophy.
Humanities.
Physical sciences.
Public health.
Statistics > Methodology.
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
Environment and Public Health
Delivery of Health Care
Philosophy, Medical
Health Status Indicators
Models, Biological
Physiological Phenomena
Fractals
Nonlinear Dynamics
Mathematics
Models, Theoretical
Health Surveys
Philosophy
Mathematical Concepts
Phenomena and Processes
Humanities
Data Collection
Natural Science Disciplines
Investigative Techniques
Epidemiologic Methods
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Disciplines and Occupations
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms
Public Health
Quality of Health Care
Patient Care
Médecine > Philosophie.
Fractales.
Physiologie humaine.
Indicateurs de santé.
Théories non linéaires.
Prestation de soins.
Modèles biologiques.
Mathématiques.
Modèles mathématiques.
Philosophie.
Sciences humaines.
Statistique > Méthodologie.
Sciences physiques.
Santé publique.
Soins médicaux.
fractals.
mathematical models.
philosophy.
humanities.
physical sciences.
public health.
Public health
Physical sciences
Medical care
Mathematical models
Biological models
Health status indicators
Human physiology
Medicine > Philosophy
Nonlinear theories
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Chance and variation. 1.1. The myth of equality. 1.2. Slaughter's Café. 1.3. What are the odds? 1.4. Odds against smallpox. 1.5. Information and chance
  • 2. The expectation of health. 2.1. Control and cybernetics. 2.2. Temperature regulation. 2.3. Respiration regulation. 2.4. Cardiac regulation. 2.5. Averages are not sufficient
  • 3. Even uncertainty has laws. 3.1. Randomness and measurement. 3.2. Chaos and determinism. 3.3. Wisdom is not static. 3.4. A new tradition
  • 4. The uncertainty of health. 4.1. The different kinds of scientists. 4.2. The Emperor in exile. 4.3. What is wrong with the law of errors. 4.4. The inverse power-law distribution. 4.5. How the physical and life sciences are different. 4.6. Only the few matter
  • 5. Fractal physiology. 5.1. Scaling in physiological data. 5.2. Allometric relationships. 5.3. Fractal heartbeats. 5.4. Intermittent chaos and colored noise. 5.5. Fractal breathing. 5.6. Fractal gait. 5.7. Fractal temperature. 5.8. Fractal gut. 5.9. Fractal neurons. 5.10. Internetwork interactions
  • 6. Complexity. 6.1. Random networks. 6.2. Scale-free networks. 6.3. Controlling complexity. 6.4. Allometric control. 6.5. Disease as loss of control
  • 7. Disease as loss of complexity. 7.1. Pathological periodicities. 7.2. Heart failure and fractal loss. 7.3. Breakdown of gait. 7.4. Summing up.

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