Noble Denis
Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, Oxford, UK.
Integr Med Res. 2012 Dec;1(1):2-4. doi: 10.1016/j.imr.2012.09.002. Epub 2012 Oct 5.
The recent growth of the systems approach to biology provides a better conceptual framework within which to interpret holistic approaches to medicine. The reason is that systems biology respects the way in which the whole constrains the parts to behave in ways that are different from what they would do in isolation. Holistic treatments depend on the same insight and can therefore be successful in practice where reductionist approaches would fail.
近期生物学系统方法的发展提供了一个更好的概念框架，用以诠释医学的整体方法。原因在于，系统生物学尊重整体对部分的约束方式，这种约束使得部分的行为方式不同于其孤立状态下的行为方式。整体治疗依赖于同样的见解，因此在还原论方法会失败的实践中可能会取得成功。
