Shen Zi-yun
Institute of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai.
Zhongguo Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Za Zhi. 2005 Mar;25(3):255-8.
The ideas and methodology of science since the later half of 15th century were reviewed in this article. It was indicated that reduction theory is the science studying existence, mainly the components and nature of things, and emergency theory is the science studying production, mainly involved in the production of new things, the scientific attitude in research work is to combine these two theories (the reductionism and holism). The adthor also pointed out that the combination of systematic biology with molecular biology, and the application of mathematical modeling are the new trend in research of life science. Research of "syndrome", a professional TCM term, is just consistent with this located at scientific frontier and highly comprehensive systematic biological theory. The integration of findings at molecular level obtained during the last several decades by reduction theory will push the research of "Syndrome" into the scientific frontier again.
本文回顾了自15世纪后半叶以来的科学思想和方法论。指出还原论是研究存在的科学，主要研究事物的组成部分和性质，而涌现论是研究生成的科学，主要涉及新事物的产生，研究工作中的科学态度是将这两种理论（还原论和整体论）结合起来。作者还指出，系统生物学与分子生物学的结合以及数学建模的应用是生命科学研究的新趋势。中医专业术语“证”的研究恰好符合这一处于科学前沿且高度综合的系统生物学理论。还原论在过去几十年中在分子水平上取得的研究成果的整合将再次把“证”的研究推向科学前沿。
