The nature of diseases: evolutionary, thermodynamic and historical aspects.

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The nature of diseases: evolutionary, thermodynamic and historical aspects.

History and philosophy of the life sciences - 1 Jan 1996

Azzone G F

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Physico-chemical sciences are dominated by the deterministic interpretation. Scientific medicine has generally been assigned to the area of functional biology and thence to the physico-chemical sciences. In as much as diseases are alterations of physiological processes, they share the ontological...

Topics

Biological Evolution
Causality
Clinical Medicine
Disease
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Genotype
Homeostasis
Humans
Nonlinear Dynamics
Phylogeny
Selection, Genetic
Thermodynamics
Time

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