Toward a Systemic Approach to Disease
| Autor: | B. Lehner, M. Nendaz, K. Samii, C. Bréant, F. Borst, Mario Bunge, P. Tahintzi, J.-M. Gaspoz, D. Hochstrasser, G. Thurler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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| Zdroj: | Complexus. 1:117-122 |
| ISSN: | 1424-8506 1424-8492 |
| Popis: | The categorization of biological states into healthy and sick, normal and abnormal, is central to medicine. It is therefore of fundamental consequence to know on what this dichotomy is based. A way of approaching this question is to adopt the systemic approach which would make it possible to clear up the concept of disease. The introduced notions are illustrated with a very simple example. Considering the blood system, we have defined an ‘ideal pattern characterizing the iron deficiency anemia. This pattern was tested on a collective of patients composed of all the female patients hospitalized in two medical clinics during the year 2000 at the University Hospital of Geneva. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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