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Where medicine went wrong : rediscovering the path to complexity /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hackensack, NJ :
World Scientific,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 variability is more indicative of health than is an average. The capricious nature of physiological systems is made conceptually manageable by smoothing over fluctuations and thinking in terms of averages. But these variations in such aspects as heart rate, breathing and walking are much more susceptible. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 337 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-326) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789812773098 9812773096 |