| Record ID | marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part33.utf8:143805407:2587 |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Download Link | /show-records/marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part33.utf8:143805407:2587?format=raw |
LEADER: 02587cam a2200445 a 4500
001 2006042102
003 DLC
005 20100603083313.0
008 060921s20072006njua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006042102
016 7 $a101298731$2DNLM
020 $a9812568832
020 $a9789812568830
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm71779064
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBAKER$dYDXCP$dC#P$dAGL$dNLM$dBTCTA$dBWK$dUUS$dDLC
050 00 $aR723$b.W463 2007
060 00 $a2007 B-336
060 10 $aQT 104$bW516w 2006
070 0 $aR723$b.W465 2006
082 00 $a610.1$222
100 1 $aWest, Bruce J.
245 10 $aWhere medicine went wrong :$brediscovering the path to complexity /$cBruce J. West.
250 $aRepr
260 $aHackensack, NJ :$bWorld Scientific,$c2007.
300 $axi, 337 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aStudies of nonlinear phenomena in life science ;$vv. 11
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [317]-326) and index.
505 0 $aChance and variation : the myth of equality ; slaughter's cafe ; what are the odds? ; odds against smallpox ; information and chance -- The expectation of health : control and cybernetics ; temperature regulation ; respiration regulation ; cardiac regulation ; averages are not sufficient -- Even uncertainy has laws : randomness and measurement ; chaos and determinism ; wisdom is not static ; a new tradition -- 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 -- How the physical and life sciences are different ; only the few matter -- 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 -- Complexity : random networks ; scale-free networks ; controlling complexity ; allometric control ; disease as loss of control -- Disease as loss of complexity : pathological periodicities ; heart failure and fractal loss ; breakdown of gait ; summing-up.
650 0 $aMedicine$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aFractals.
650 0 $aHuman physiology.
650 0 $aHealth status indicators.
650 0 $aNonlinear theories.
650 12 $aPhysiological Phenomena.
650 22 $aFractals.
650 22 $aHealth Status Indicators.
650 22 $aModels, Biological.
650 22 $aNonlinear Dynamics.
650 22 $aPhilosophy, Medical.
830 0 $aStudies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences ;$vv. 11.