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Multidisciplinary approaches to theory in medicine /

This volume will be a collection of chapters from authors with wide experience in their research field. The purpose is to produce a coherent book that reflects the common theme of theory in medical thinking and multidisciplinary research practice. In this context "theory" relates to framew...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Paton, Ray, McNamara, Laura A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2006.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Studies in multidisciplinarity ; v. 3.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Foreword
  • Contributors
  • Biographies
  • Contents
  • Multidisciplinary Approaches to Theory in Medicine
  • Series Dedication
  • Foreword
  • Contributors
  • Biographies
  • Contents
  • 1 Disorders of haemoglobin: from phenotype to genotype
  • 2 Between bleeding and thrombosis or beyond
  • 3 The theory of molecular evolution and its medical implications
  • 4 What is a medical theory?
  • 5 Medicine as a moral epistemology
  • 6 Theory in medical education
  • an oxymoron?
  • 7 Knowledge, arguments, and intentions in clinical decision-making
  • 8 Analogies, conventions, and expert systems in medicine: some insights from a XIX century physiologist
  • 9 Reliability of measurements in medical research and clinical practice
  • 10 Advanced data mining and predictive modelling at the core of personalised medicine
  • 11 Designs and therapies for stochastic neural systems
  • 12 Mining scenarios for hepatitis B and C
  • 13 Modelling the in vivo growth rate of HIV: implications for vaccination
  • 14 A flexible, iterative approach to physiological modelling
  • 15 Systems biology, cell specificity, and physiology
  • 16 Modelling T cell activation, proliferation, and homeostasis
  • 17 A theory for complex systems: reactive animation
  • 18 Modelling of haemodynamics in the cardiovascular system by integrating medical imaging techniques and computer modelling tools
  • 19 Vasopressin and homeostasis
  • running hard to stay in the same place
  • 20 Mathematical modelling of angiogenesis and vascular adaptation1
  • 21 Towards understanding the physical basis of re-entrant cardiac arrhythmias
  • 22 Reflections on the quantitative analysis of liver fibrosis in biopsy specimens
  • 23 A network approach to living tissues
  • 24 Genetic algorithms in radiotherapy
  • 25 Tissue engineering: the multidisciplinary epitome of hope and despair
  • Index
  • Last Page.