The Limits of Reductionism in Medicine: Could Systems Biology Offer an Alternative?

Andrew C Ahn, Muneesh Tewari, Chi-Sang Poon and Russell S Phillips

PLOS Medicine, 2006, vol. 3, issue 6, 1-

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.

Date: 2006
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