The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture Capra Fritjof Paperback
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture Capra Fritjof Paperback While physicists were busy revolutionizing our outlook on the fundamentals of the universe, the mechanistic…
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The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture Capra Fritjof Paperback
While physicists were busy revolutionizing our outlook on the fundamentals of the universe, the mechanistic paradigm of the past had already taken hold on the methods of every other field. From a biology textbook quoted by Capra, "One of the acid tests of understanding an object is the ability to put it together from its component parts. Our biologists had taken a mechanistic view of life.
102) An approach that ironically is quite opposed to the study of life. " (Capra p. We've now realized that the mapping of the human genome has yielded many beautiful computer models but little else.
The biomedical model which concentrates on the mechanisms of smaller and smaller fragments of the body has yielded an approach that views disease as, "the malfunctioning of biological organisms which are studied from the point of view of cellular and molecular biology; the doctor's role is to intervene,
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