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Environmental biodynamics : a new science of how the environment interacts with human health / Manish Arora, Paul Curtin ; with Austen Curtin, Christine Austin, Alessandro Giuliani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arora, Manish (Manish Kumar), author.
- Curtin, Paul (Paul C. P.), author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental health.
- Environmental toxicology.
- Precision medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- 'Environmental Biodynamics' offers a daring new inquiry into our environment and its impact on human health by redefining how we conceptualise interactions between complex systems.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Environmental Biodynamics
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Introduction to Environmental Biodynamics
- Introduction
- What to Expect from This Book
- Aims and Scope of Environmental Biodynamics
- Complexity and the Need for Precision Environmental Medicine
- Contrasting Environmental Biodynamics and Other -Omic Sciences
- Principles of Environmental Biodynamics
- Chapter 1 Summary
- 2 The Lens of "Thingness": Structuralism, Reductionism, and Simplicity
- How Did We Arrive at the Current Worldview of Health?
- Structuralism, Reductionism, and Simplicity
- A Puzzle for You
- Environmental Biodynamics: Rethinking the Role of Time in Environmental Health Research
- Incorporating Biodynamics and the Shape of Change into Population Health
- A Hard Lesson to Learn: Repeated Structural Analyses Do Not Equal a Functional Interpretation (Case Study)
- Chapter 2 Summary
- 3 The Shape of Change: Complexity, Organization, and Chaos
- Complexity and Organization
- The Essentiality of Biodynamic Interfaces
- The Organization of Interfaces: Determinism, Stochasticity, and Chaos
- Attractor Reconstruction: The Shape of Change
- Incorporating Biodynamics and the Shape of Change into Precision Medicine
- Environmental Biodynamics and Environmental Medicine (Case Studies)
- Chapter 3 Summary
- 4 The Process of Interdependence: Temporal Dynamics of Biodynamic Interfaces
- Models of Interdependence
- Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions and the "n-Body Problem"
- Incorporating Dynamic Interdependence in Environmental Medicine (Case Study)
- Chapter 4 Summary
- 5 The Geometry of Health: Patterns, Structures, Forms, and Constraints
- Dimensions of Health and Disease
- Patterns, Structures, Forms, and Constraints in Biological Systems.
- Discrete and Integrated Assessments of Biological Dimensionality
- Leveraging Patterns, Structures, Forms, and Constraints in Health Research (Case Study)
- Chapter 5 Summary
- 6 The Layers of Life: Emergent Complexity and Self-Organization
- General Systems Theory as a Unifying Framework
- Emergent Complexity and Self-Organization
- Emergence and Self-Organization in Environmental Medicine
- How Does Environmental Biodynamics Fit into Systems Theory?
- How Does This Perspective Relate to Traditional Structural Views?
- Implications of Environmental Biodynamics for Environmental Health Sciences
- Our Verse (Conclusion)
- Appendix: Operationalizing Environmental Biodynamics
- The Questions Defining an Environmental Biodynamics Approach
- Set 1: On the Organization of Systems
- Set 2: On Constraints and Interdependence
- Set 3: On Emergence and Self-Organization
- Empirical Methods to Study the Organization of Environmental Biodynamics
- Computational Methods to Study the Organization of Environmental Biodynamics
- Design and Theoretical Implications
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-758296-6
- 0-19-758297-4
- 0-19-758295-8
- OCLC:
- 1260689653
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