Putting the Patient Back Together — Social Medicine, Network Medicine, and the Limits of Reductionism

Putting the Patient Back Together — Social Medicine, Network Medicine, and the Limits of Reductionism

Network biologists, in focusing on interrelational structures emerging from complex interactions among genes, proteins, internal milieu, and external environment, echo the social science view that biomedical reductionism misses crucial aspects of human disease.

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine 2017-12, Vol.377 (25), p.2493-2499
Hauptverfasser: Greene, Jeremy A, Loscalzo, Joseph
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Biology
Biomedical research
Clinical medicine
Disease
Genomes
Pathology
Precision medicine
Reductionism
Social organization
Sociology
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Zusammenfassung:Network biologists, in focusing on interrelational structures emerging from complex interactions among genes, proteins, internal milieu, and external environment, echo the social science view that biomedical reductionism misses crucial aspects of human disease.
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMms1706744