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Title: Applying self-organizing dissipative system theory to analyze a traditional Chinese medicine case study
Author/Creator: Rodrigues, Dianah; Gao, Yin; Herfel, William E.
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
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.
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
Date: 2008
Publisher: China Academic Journal Electronic Publishing House
Keyword(s): self-organizing dissipative structure; entropy gradient; Bénard cell; yin-ying and five-phase theory
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43463
Identifier: ISSN:1002-0772

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