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Where medicine went wrong [[electronic resource] ] : rediscovering the path to complexity / / Bruce J. West
Where medicine went wrong [[electronic resource] ] : rediscovering the path to complexity / / Bruce J. West
Autore West Bruce J
Pubbl/distr/stampa Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2006
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (352 p.)
Disciplina 616.075
Collana Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences
Soggetto topico Medicine - Philosophy
Fractals
Human physiology
Health status indicators
Nonlinear theories
ISBN 1-281-92458-X
9786611924584
981-277-309-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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 scientists
4.2. 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 complexity
6.4. 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; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910777308703321
West Bruce J  
Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2006
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Where medicine went wrong [[electronic resource] ] : rediscovering the path to complexity / / Bruce J. West
Where medicine went wrong [[electronic resource] ] : rediscovering the path to complexity / / Bruce J. West
Autore West Bruce J
Pubbl/distr/stampa Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2006
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (352 p.)
Disciplina 616.075
Collana Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences
Soggetto topico Medicine - Philosophy
Fractals
Human physiology
Health status indicators
Nonlinear theories
ISBN 1-281-92458-X
9786611924584
981-277-309-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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 scientists
4.2. 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 complexity
6.4. 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; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910810553003321
West Bruce J  
Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2006
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui