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Complexity and Medicine - The Elephant in the Waiting Room (Paperback) Loot Price: R707
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Complexity and Medicine - The Elephant in the Waiting Room (Paperback)

Colin James Alexander

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This book takes Complexity Theory and applies it to medicine where it has previously made little ground. It provides new hypotheses for multiple common but misunderstood diseases. Doctors in particular will understand that many diseases have remained unsolved due to a linear approach to what are complex biological systems, and failure to understand and apply Complexity Theory. Therefore, many common conditions have no known cause and consequently treatments are either ineffectual or non-existant, when many of these diseases are in fact preventable. There is growing interest in non-linear science, dynamic systems, chaos and complexity theory. This trend has directly involved other sciences, including biology, but has been little touched on by medicine. Readers of this book will: * Understand the difference between Linear Science and Complexity Theory, and how medicine has failed to apply the latter. * Recognise the advantages of using this understanding to generate realistic hypotheses for cause of disease. * Read how hypotheses so generated have been formulated for a number of common diseases.

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Imprint: Nottingham University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2010
First published: 2010
Original authors: Colin James Alexander
Dimensions: 233 x 155 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Laminated cover
Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 978-1-907284-56-4
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Information theory > Cybernetics & systems theory
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pathology > Gross pathology
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LSN: 1-907284-56-7
Barcode: 9781907284564

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