Main description:

In recent years, systems biology seems to have encountered insurmountable obstacles. Precision medicine faces the problem of integration in disease regulation, despite the establishment of biomarker systems and the continuous discovery of new targeted drugs. Towards Holistic Medicine explores the development of modern medicine and the future medical model in the broader perspective of Chinese and Western medicine, biology, and even the methodological evolution of natural science in recent centuries. The book discusses how modern medicine will move past systems biology and precision medicine and toward holistic medicine.

Contents:

1. Threats to Modern Medicine and its Reform and Opening.

2. Medical Revolution Arisen from Precision Medicine and its Scientific Limitations.

3. The Certainty and Difficulty of Medicine Towards Integration.

4. Complex Science: The Beginning of Science to Directly Face the Complexity of Life.

5. Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Medical Tradition Comprehended Only by Today's Science.

6. Precision Medicine and Chinese Medicine: Personalized Medicine Systems on Different Levels.

7. Towards Holistic Medicine: Returning to the Tradition of Chinese Medicine Under the Guidance of Complexity Science.

8. Medical Structure in the Future: A Medical System Combining State Medicine and Disease Medicine.