Where medicine went wrong : rediscovering the path to complexity / Bruce J. West.
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- ISBN: 9789812568830
- Physical Description: xi, 337 p. : il. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: New Jersey : World Scientific, 2006, c2006.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Incluye bibliografía e índice. |
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| Subject: | Filosofía medica. Fisiología humana. Fractales. Indicadores de condiciones de salud. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biblioteca Ipicyt | R723 W4 W4 2006 | AVA00453 | Coleccion General | Available | - |
| 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. |
