Where Medicine Went Wrong: Rediscovering the Path to Complexity

by Bruce J. West

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9812568832
• ISBN13: 9789812568830
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"