Multidisciplinary Approaches to Theory in Medicine, Volume 3Ray Paton, Laura A. McNamara Elsevier, 2006 - 531 pages This volume will be a collection of chapters from authors with wide experience in their research field. The purpose is to produce a coherent book that reflects the common theme of theory in medical thinking and multidisciplinary research practice. In this context "theory" relates to frameworks of concepts, facts, models etc that help to inform practitioners (clinicians, scientists and engineers) both within their own fields and as they seek to share dialogue with colleagues from other fields. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Theory in Medicine will therefore be integrative across a broad spectrum of fields within medicine. To achieve this the chapters will be associated with others in a number of meaningful ways. Each chapter will share a number of points of contact that will include at least two of the following:
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Contents
1 Disorders of haemoglobin from phenotype to genotype | 1 |
2 Between bleeding and thrombosis or beyond | 15 |
3 The theory of molecular evolution and its medical implications | 31 |
4 What is a medical theory? | 47 |
5 Medicine as a moral epistemology | 63 |
6 Theory in medical education an oxymoron? | 89 |
7 Knowledge arguments and intentions in clinical decisionmaking | 103 |
8 Analogies conventions and expert systems in medicine some insights from a XIX century physiologist | 131 |
15 Systems biology cell specificity and physiology | 265 |
16 Modelling T cell activation proliferation and homeostasis | 281 |
17 A theory for complex systems reactive animation | 309 |
18 Modelling of haemodynamics in the cardiovascular system by integrating medical imaging techniques and computer modelling tools | 325 |
19 Vasopressin and homeostasis running hard to stay in the same place | 353 |
20 Mathematical modelling of angiogenesis and vascular adaptation1 | 369 |
21 Towards understanding the physical basis of reentrant cardiac arrhythmias | 389 |
22 Reflections on the quantitative analysis of liver fibrosis in biopsy specimens | 411 |
9 Reliability of measurements in medical research and clinical practice | 147 |
10 Advanced data mining and predictive modelling at the core of personalised medicine | 165 |
11 Designs and therapies for stochastic neural systems | 193 |
12 Mining scenarios for hepatitis B and C | 209 |
13 Modelling the in vivo growth rate of HIV implications for vaccination | 231 |
14 A flexible iterative approach to physiological modelling | 247 |