04030nam 2200697Ia 450 991077730870332120230828214954.01-281-92458-X9786611924584981-277-309-6(CKB)1000000000413711(EBL)1214485(SSID)ssj0000271174(PQKBManifestationID)12051868(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271174(PQKBWorkID)10293385(PQKB)10623835(MiAaPQ)EBC1214485(WSP)00006175(Au-PeEL)EBL1214485(CaPaEBR)ebr10201390(CaONFJC)MIL192458(OCoLC)820942658(EXLCZ)99100000000041371120060921d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhere medicine went wrong[electronic resource] rediscovering the path to complexity /Bruce J. WestHackensack, NJ World Scientificc20061 online resource (352 p.)Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences ;v. 11Description based upon print version of record.981-256-883-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; 1. Chance and Variation; 1.1. The myth of equality; 1.2. Slaughter's Café; 1.3. What are the odds?; 1.4. Odds against smallpox; 1.5. Information and chance; 2. The Expectation of Health; 2.1. Control and cybernetics; 2.2. Temperature regulation; 2.3. Respiration regulation; 2.4. Cardiac regulation; 2.5. Averages are not sufficient; 3. Even Uncertainty has Laws; 3.1. Randomness and measurement; 3.2. Chaos and determinism; 3.3. Wisdom is not static; 3.4. A new tradition; 4. The Uncertainty of Health; 4.1. The different kinds of scientists4.2. The Emperor in exile4.3. What is wrong with the law of errors; 4.4. The inverse power-law distribution; 4.5. How the physical and life sciences are different; 4.6. Only the few matter; 5. Fractal Physiology; 5.1. Scaling in physiological data; 5.2. Allometric relationships; 5.3. Fractal heartbeats; 5.4. Intermittent chaos and colored noise; 5.5. Fractal breathing; 5.6. Fractal gait; 5.7. Fractal temperature; 5.8. Fractal gut; 5.9. Fractal neurons; 5.10. Internetwork interactions; 6. Complexity; 6.1. Random networks; 6.2. Scale-free networks; 6.3. Controlling complexity6.4. Allometric control6.5. Disease as loss of control; 7. Disease as Loss of Complexity; 7.1. Pathological periodicities; 7.2. Heart failure and fractal loss; 7.3. Breakdown of gait; 7.4. Summing up; Epilogue; References; IndexWhere Medicine Went Wrong explores how the idea of an average value has been misapplied to medical phenomena, distorted understanding and lead to flawed medical decisions. Through new insights into the science of complexity, traditional physiology is replaced with fractal physiology, in which variability is more indicative of health than is an average. The capricious nature of physiological systems is made conceptually manageable by smoothing over fluctuations and thinking in terms of averages. But these variations in such aspects as heart rate, breathing and walking are much more susceptible Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences ;v. 11.MedicinePhilosophyFractalsHuman physiologyHealth status indicatorsNonlinear theoriesMedicinePhilosophy.Fractals.Human physiology.Health status indicators.Nonlinear theories.616.075West Bruce J48667MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777308703321Where medicine went wrong3700051UNINA