The Theory of Endobiogeny
Volume 1: Global Systems Thinking and Biological Modeling for Clinical Medicine

A comprehensive introduction to global systems theory and the theory of endobiogeny

Kamyar M. Hedayat (Author), Jean-Claude Lapraz (Author)

9780128169032, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 18 June 2019

306 pages, Approx. 150 illustrations (150 in full color)
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.95 kg

The Theory of Endobiogeny Volume 1: Global Systems Thinking and Biological Modeling for Clinical Medicine offers researchers and clinicians a detailed introduction to the theory of Endobiogeny. The book presents a new approach to medicine that is at once scientific and humanistic, quantitative, and qualitative. The philosophical and experimental basis of a global complex systems approach to physiology is presented along with a mathematical approach to modeling the dynamism of the terrain. The importance of the history and physical examination are renewed as a source of “big data? readily available to clinicians for greater insight into the patient’s state. Expansion of the therapeutic compendium is proposed based on a rational, clinical approach correlated to mathematical indicators of the physiologic state. What is proposed in this work is a fundamental shift in scientific thinking with a resulting expansion of the boundaries of clinical medicine for the 21st century and beyond.

1. Origins of endobiogeny
2. A general overview of systems theory, integrative physiology, and the theory of endobiogeny
3. The autonomic nervous system
4. A clinical introduction to the endocrine system according to the theory of endobiogeny
5. The pineal axel
6. The corticotropic axis
7. Gonadotropic axis
8. Thyrotropic axis
9. Somatotropic axis
10. Endocrine associations: Coupling, linking, and yoking
11. Endocrine-organ relationships: Drainage, detoxification, and disease
12. Adaptation syndromes
13. Art of history taking in endobiogeny
14. Art of physical examination in endobiogeny
15. A new approach to biological modeling: Introduction to the biology of functions
16. Introduction to the usage of medicinal plants
17. Therapeutics according to an endobiogenic reflection

Subject Areas: Life sciences: general issues [PSA], Physiology [MFG]