Where medicine went wrong
Subtitle: rediscovering the path to complexity
By: Bruce J. West
Edition: Repr
Series: Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life science -- v. 11; Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences -- v. 11.
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9789812568830
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chance and variation : the myth of equality ; slaughter's cafe ; what are the odds? ; odds against smallpox ; information and chance; title: The expectation of health : control and cybernetics ; temperature regulation ; respiration regulation ; cardiac regulation ; averages are not sufficient; title: Even uncertainy has laws : randomness and measurement ; chaos and determinism ; wisdom is not static ; a new tradition; title: The uncertainty of health : the different kinds of scientists ; the emperor in exile ; what is wrong with the law of errors ; the inverse power-law distribution; title: How the physical and life sciences are different ; only the few matter; title: Fractal physiology : scaling in physiological data ; allometric relationships ; fractal heartbeats ; intermittent chaos and colored noise ; fractal breathing ; fractal gait ; fractal temperature ; fractal gut ; fractal neurons ; internetwork interactions; title: Complexity : random networks ; scale-free networks ; controlling complexity ; allometric control ; disease as loss of control; title: Disease as loss of complexity : pathological periodicities ; heart failure and fractal loss ; breakdown of gait ; summing-up.