Where Medicine Went Wrong Rediscovering the Path to Complexity

"Where Medicine Went Wrong 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."--BOOK JACKET.West is the author of 'Where Medicine Went Wrong Rediscovering the Path to Complexity', published 2006 under ISBN 9789812568830 and ISBN 9812568832.