{"product_id":"9789814338219","title":"Where Medicine Went Wrong: Rediscovering The Path To Complexity: Rediscovering the Path to Complexity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere Medicine Went Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt may be useful to quote from the late Stephen Jay Gould's book \u003ci\u003eFull House\u003c\/i\u003e 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.” Dr West has quantified this observation and make it useful for the diagnosis of disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChance and Variation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Expectation of Health\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEven Uncertainty Has Laws\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Uncertainty of Health\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFractal Physiology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComplexity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisease as Loss of Complexity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReadership:\u003c\/b\u003e Healthcare professionals, pre-med students and general readers. May be used as a supplementary text for advanced undergraduate or graduate course in complexity science.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47185281777904,"sku":"9789814338219","price":66.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789814338219_p0.jpg?v=1763690719","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789814338219","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}