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World Scientific, World Scientific Publishing Company
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337

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Subjects

Nonlinear theories, Health status indicators, Fractals, Philosophy, Nonlinear Dynamics, Medicine, Physiological Phenomena, Medical Philosophy, Biological Models, Human physiology, Medicine, philosophy
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Where medicine went wrong: rediscovering the path to complexity
2007, World Scientific, World Scientific Publishing Company
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Where Medicine Went Wrong: Rediscovering the Path to Complexity. Studies in Nonlinear Phenomena in Life Science, Volume 11
2006, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
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Where Medicine Went Wrong: Rediscovering the Path to Complexity
2006, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
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Table of Contents

Chance 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-326) and index.

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Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life science -- v. 11, Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences -- v. 11.

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610.1
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R723 .W463 2007, R723 .W463 2006, R723.W463 2006

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xi, 337 p. :
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337

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OL24446680M
ISBN 10
9812568832
ISBN 13
9789812568830
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2006042102
OCLC/WorldCat
71779064

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