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WHERE MEDICINE WENT WRONG (V11)

English · Paperback / Softback

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Where 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 to the early influence of disease than are averages. It may be useful to quote from the late Stephen Jay Gould's book Full House on the errant nature of averages: ?? our culture encodes a strong bias either to neglect or ignore variation. We tend to focus instead on measures of central tendency, and as a result we make some terrible mistakes, often with considerable practical import.?


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Authors Bruce J West, West Bruce J, Bruce J West, Bruce J (Army Research Office West, Bruce J (Univ Of North Texas West, Bruce J. West
Publisher World Scientific
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 09.10.2006
 
EAN 9789812568830
ISBN 978-981-256-883-0
No. of pages 352
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
Weight 510 g
Series Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena
Studies Of Nonlinear Phenomena In Life Science
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

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