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300 a| xi, 337 p. :b| ill. ;c| 23 cm.;

490 1 a| Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life science ;v| v. 11;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-326) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

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Where medicine went wrong rediscovering the path to complexity / Bruce J. West.

Author/creator	West, Bruce J.
Format	Electronic
Edition	Repr
Publication Info	Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific,
Description	xi, 337 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Medicine--Philosophy. Fractals. Human physiology. Health status indicators. Nonlinear theories. Physiological Phenomena. Fractals. Health Status Indicators. Models, Biological. Nonlinear Dynamics. Philosophy, Medical.

Series	Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life science ; v. 11 Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences ; v. 11. ^A1149700
Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-326) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2006042102
ISBN	9812568832
ISBN	9789812568830

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