Environmental Health Perspectives, August 15th, 2005
The Challenge of Complexity
It has been noted that the single characteristic describing the frontiers of contemporary science is complexity (Dean 1993a). Riley (1987) has opined that
members of the human species do not grow old in laboratories. [Disease and aging] processes must be gleaned not from studies of any single [subject or cohort] but from many cohorts under the most widely varying social and temporal conditions.
Many theories and methods account for the complexity of disease and the range of factors and influences shaping health. Wulff et al. (1986) have noted that the biomed...
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