Cancer is increasingly recognized as a disease of the hierarchical organization of the body, so that different levels are involved. Similarly, cancer research requires collaboration of different area of biomedicine and systemic models to explain the phenomenon and its complexity. I briefly discuss the strict relationship that seems to be between the principles that govern the unitary behaviour of an organism and the need of an interdisciplinary work in scientific practice. My thesis is that integration is possible and needed not just only because of practical reasons, but because the intrinsic way the natural world is and how we know it.
Epistemology in Life Sciences. An Integrative Approach to a Complex System like Cancer, in a Forum on “Possibilities for multidiscipline”
Bertolaso M
2011-01-01
Abstract
Cancer is increasingly recognized as a disease of the hierarchical organization of the body, so that different levels are involved. Similarly, cancer research requires collaboration of different area of biomedicine and systemic models to explain the phenomenon and its complexity. I briefly discuss the strict relationship that seems to be between the principles that govern the unitary behaviour of an organism and the need of an interdisciplinary work in scientific practice. My thesis is that integration is possible and needed not just only because of practical reasons, but because the intrinsic way the natural world is and how we know it.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
