Complexity and Medicine The Elephant in the Waiting Room |
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| Other:
| Alexander, Michael |
| Author:
| Alexander, Colin James |
| ISBN: | 978-1-907284-89-2 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Publisher: | 5m Publishing Ltd.
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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Thorough and unique, this record focuses on developing strategies for the prevention of noninfectious diseases. Discussing a number of ailments--including, coronary heart disease, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, asthma, and varicose veins--this meticulous account utilizes chaos theory and complexity theory to form hypotheses about the causes of these nonlinear diseases and argues that medicine has...
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Thorough and unique, this record focuses on developing strategies for the prevention of noninfectious diseases. Discussing a number of ailments--including, coronary heart disease, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, asthma, and varicose veins--this meticulous account utilizes chaos theory and complexity theory to form hypotheses about the causes of these nonlinear diseases and argues that medicine has previously failed in applying these theories.