The logic of problem-solving in clinical diagnosis: a course for second-year medical students.
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Biomedical subjects
K F Schaffner
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Reductionism and holism in medicine. Introduction.
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Holistic Health↗
Theory structure in the biomedical sciences.
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Biological Evolution↗
The peripherality of reductionism in the development of molecular biology.
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Genetics↗
Chemical systems and chemical evolution: the philosophy of molecular biology.
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Macromolecular Substances↗
Antireductionism and molecular biology. Though the antireductionist thesis in unwarranted, research in classical biology may well be of value.
My general conclusion, then, is that, given the current state of biological science, there may be good heuristic reasons for not attempting in all possible areas to develop physicochemical explanations of biological phenomena, and good reasons for attempting to formulate specifically biological theories. This, however, is an argument which supports an irreducibility thesis for methodological reasons. Any attempt to twist this into a claim of real irreducibility for all time is, in the light of recent work in molecular biology, logically untenable, empirically unwarranted, and heuristically useless.
Biochemical Phenomena↗
A place for theoretical cardiology.
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