The limits of reductionism in medicine: Could systems biology offer an alternative?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 0709-0713

  Ahn, Andrew C ^a,b,c   Tewari, Muneesh ^d   Poon, Chi Sang ^c,e   Phillips, Russell S ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POTASSIUM;

BIOLOGY; CANCER; CHEMOTAXIS; CLINICAL MEDICINE; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOLISTIC CARE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFECTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASES; DRUG THERAPY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS THEORY;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE; DRUG THERAPY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RISK FACTORS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 33745588546     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030208     Document Type: Review

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