Full Description
This text examines the place of biological knowledge within the framework of science as a whole and addresses issues focused on the specific nature of biology, how biology is studied, and how biological knowledge is translated into applications, in particular, with regard to medicine. The book opens with a general discussion of the development of human understanding of scientific knowledge and method. The book gets specific focusing on knowledge of the cell, the basic unit of life. The salient point is the analogy between a systems-based analysis of factory regulation and the regulation of the cell. The book also includes information on translational science.
Contents
Preface ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Science and Knowledge 1 2. Causality and the Three Pillars of Aristotelian Science 11 3. Scientific Knowledge 35 4. Cells and Factories 59 5. Translational Science 85 6. Stochastic Validation: Classifi ers 97 7. Stochastic Validation: Networks 129 8. Sola Fides 147 9. Model-based Experimentation in Biology 169 References 189 Index 197 IEEE Press Series on Biomedical Engineering 203
