The limits of reductionism in medicine: could systems biology offer an alternative?
review · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 16681415.
- Also identified by PMC identifier 1459480.
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Abstract
In the first of a two part series, Ahn and colleagues discuss the reductionist approach pervading medicine and explain how a systems approach (as advocated by systems biology) may complement reductionism.
Medical subject headings
- Biomedical Research
- Systems Biology
- Systems Theory