- Title
- Applying self-organizing dissipative system theory to analyze a traditional Chinese medicine case study
- Creator
- Rodrigues, Dianah; Gao, Yin; Herfel, William E.
- Relation
- Medicine and Philosophy Vol. 29, Issue 3, p. 56-57
- Relation
- http://www.yizhe.org/magazine/maga.asp?BookYear=2008&BookNum=3&sort=1
- Publisher
- China Academic Journal Electronic Publishing House
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- To analyze Chinese medical practice in terms of the concept of self-organization. To introduce the concept illustrating it with Bénard convection, a model dissipative structure. Then to show by example how the concept resonates with Chinese medical diagnostic and treatment strategies through the explication of a clinical case study.
- Subject
- self-organizing dissipative structure; entropy gradient; Bénard cell; yin-ying and five-phase theory
- Identifier
- uon:5576
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43463
- Identifier
- ISSN:1002-0772
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