Complexity and medicine : the elephant in the waiting room /: the elephant in the waiting room. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Complexity & medicine : the elephant in the waiting room
• Further Information: Note: Colin James Alexander.
• Other Names: Alexander, Colin James, 1920-2007
• Contents: THE PROBLEM OF COMPLEX DISEASES: The failure of medicine: finding cause in complex diseases -- Chaos theory -- The complex self-regulating dynamic system -- A search algorithm for finding cause -- TESTING THE PATTERN-MATCHING MODEL: Idiopathic osteoporosis -- Chaos theory and Paget's disease -- Diseases of the spine -- Soft tissues, varicose veins, asthma -- Idiopathic osteoarthritis -- Search for a mechanism for the unused arc theory -- Search for a matching pattern -- Testing the unused arc hypothesis -- The obstacles to finding cause -- Poincaré, and the numbers fallacy.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : NUP Nottingham University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (188 pages)
• Subjects: 616.07/1; Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation; Disease -- etiology; Nonlinear Dynamics; Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781907284892; 1907284893
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