Complexity: the science for medicine and the human story.

摘要

Athar Yawar (Feb 13, p 546) affirms that medicine is better served by science than art, albeit with a new, human science that is less objective, certain, and isolationist. Such a discipline describes the new post-normal science of chaos and complexity, which Stephen Hawking says he thinks will be the science for the 21st century.Science keeps changing, as does medicine-the science of humanity. Hippocratic medicine replaced divine intervention and the supernatural with the science of natural observations, guiding medicine to the 18th century. A post-Hippocratic medicine emerged with influences from classical science of structure and predictability, probabilistic and reductionist modern science, and then post-modern science of deconstruction. These coalesced to a normal science, before 2000, of a puzzle-solving approach with uncertainty managed and values unspoken.