The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities, 2016, p.50
2016
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- MODELLING SYSTEMS BIOMEDICINE: INTERTWINEMENT AND THE ‘REAL’
- Ist Teil von
- The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities, 2016, p.50
- Ort / Verlag
- Edinburgh University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2016
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- At a conference on developing the capacity of systems biology to transform itself in systems biomedicine, several of the scientists’ presentations showcase the computational modelling methods they are developing. Drawing towards the end of his presentation, an experienced pharmacologist admonishes the audience to bear in mind that, despite the progress in modelling techniques that he has been discussing, a model is always just a representation and never reality. At this point, there is a PowerPoint slide showing Magritte’s painting,This is not a Pipe, and chuckling from the audience. It will not have been the first time that they have
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9781474400046, 1474400043DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0002Titel-ID: cdi_oup_upso_upso_9781474400046_chapter_2
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Active components, Animal models, Applied philosophy, Applied sciences, Biological sciences, Biology, Biomedical research, Computational modeling, Computer modeling, Digital, Display devices, Dualism, Electrical engineering, Electronic components, Engineering, Experimentation, Health sciences, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, Mathematical analysis, Mathematical models, Mathematics, Medical research, Medical sciences, Modeling, Observational research, Philosophy, Philosophy of science, Research methods, Scientific method, Simulations, Systems biology