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Environmental Biodynamics: A New Science of How the Environment Interacts with Human Health

Autor Manish Arora, Paul Curtin Cu Austen Curtin, Christine Austin, Alessandro Giuliani Cuvânt înainte de Linda S. Birnbaum
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 mar 2022

În lucrarea Environmental Biodynamics, remarcăm o schimbare fundamentală de paradigmă în știința sănătății mediului. Această ediție publicată de Oxford University Press propune o teorie științifică centrală — Biodynamic Interface Theory — care guvernează modul în care fiziologia umană interacționează în timp real cu mediul extern. Descoperim aici un efort de a depăși abordările reducționiste tradiționale, care se limitează adesea la cuantificarea unor factori de mediu statici sau a unor indicatori de sănătate momentani.

Structurat în șase capitole, volumul analizează interfața dinamică și independentă operațional care reglează fluxul bidirecțional dintre sisteme complexe. Abordarea este una clinică și riguroasă, integrând cercetări de ultimă oră din domenii diverse precum fizica teoretică, biologia și matematica. Observăm cum autorii folosesc 32 de ilustrații color și diagrame detaliate pentru a explica mecanismele de reglare și pentru a oferi sugestii concrete privind colectarea datelor și analiza computațională modernă. Putem afirma că textul servește drept ghid teoretic pentru o nouă disciplină, punând sub semnul întrebării metodele actuale de predicție a comportamentului dinamic în sistemele biologice.

Această lucrare completează volumul Time and Methods in Environmental Interfaces Modelling prin concentrarea specifică pe interfața dintre sănătatea umană și mediu, adăugând o dimensiune biologică și fiziologică modelelor matematice de interfață. Poziționarea lui Manish Arora în acest domeniu este interesantă: experiența sa anterioară în sisteme complexe, reflectată în lucrări precum Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing, îi permite să aplice rigoarea ingineriei sistemelor asupra proceselor biologice, oferind o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care mediul ne modelează sănătatea pe termen lung.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197582947
ISBN-10: 019758294X
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 32 full color illustrations
Dimensiuni: 267 x 188 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Environmental Biodynamics cercetătorilor și practicienilor din sănătate publică ce doresc să înțeleagă sănătatea nu ca pe o stare statică, ci ca pe un proces dinamic. Cititorul câștigă un cadru teoretic nou pentru interpretarea interacțiunilor complexe dintre factorii de mediu și răspunsul fiziologic uman, beneficiind de un suport vizual de excepție care facilitează înțelegerea modelelor matematice și computaționale propuse.


Despre autor

Manish Arora și Paul Curtin sunt cercetători recunoscuți pentru abordările lor interdisciplinare în domeniul sănătății mediului. Manish Arora a explorat anterior dinamica sistemelor complexe în context industrial, coordonând lucrări precum Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing, expertiză pe care o transferă acum în analiza sistemelor biologice. Contribuția sa la Environmental Biodynamics reflectă o preocupare constantă pentru modul în care interacțiunile sistemice influențează bunăstarea umană. Co-autorii și colaboratorii săi, inclusiv experți în biologie și fizică, întregesc profilul academic necesar pentru fundamentarea acestei noi ramuri științifice.


Descriere

Is there a central scientific theory governing how human physiology interacts with the environment?

Our environment exerts a profound effect on our health and well-being. Yet, the rules guiding such interaction between individual human physiology and the environment remain elusive. While various disciplines have emerged studying components and base interactions of each system, no method has
successfully predicted the dynamic behavior between these complex systems in real time.

Environmental Biodynamics offers a daring new inquiry into our environment and its impact on human health. Moving beyond a reductionist view of human physiology and the environment, this volume proposes a fundamental shift in environmental health science from quantifying structural relationships,
such as static measures of environmental factors or momentary health indicators, to studying functional interdependencies in time. Across six chapters, the authors weave together the latest research from biology, environmental science, theoretical physics, mathematics, and philosophy to explore
their Biodynamic Interface Theory, which states that complex systems connect primarily through a dynamic, operationally independent interface that regulates the bidirectional interactions between systems over time. Later chapters compare the proposed theory against current practice and provide
suggestions for further methods of data collection and computational analysis. Supported by vivid full-color diagrams and a wealth of original data, Environmental Biodynamics is an accessible theoretical guide to this promising new field of environmental health


Recenzii

Which came first: the chicken or the egg? This book finally answers that ancient paradox by sharing a better understanding of the dynamic interaction between the environment and human health.
Drawing upon concepts from diverse fields such as physics and systems theory, Environmental Biodynamics offers an ambitious proposal to shift the paradigm of environmental health research, arguing that incorporating a biodynamic approach will allow researchers to develop better, and more useful, explanations of the complex relationships that hold between environmental chemical exposures and human health. This approach has the potential to rescue researchers from the 'ocean of correlations' that such studies usually generate and the constraints that current reductionistic methods place on scientific inference.
This is a book full of fearless ideas that hopes to bring about an advance in the way we understand our relationship with our environment and how it impacts human health.

Notă biografică

Manish Arora is the Edith J Baerwald Professor and Vice Chair of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York where he directs a program at the intersection of exposure sciences, environmental epidemiology, and public health to study the environmental determinants of health and disease. Along with Drs. Alessandro Giuliani and Paul Curtin, he is credited with postulating the Biodynamic InterfaceConjecture, a theoretical framework to study complex system interactions through the lens of temporal dynamics. In 2015, he was recognized with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by President Barack Obama, the highest award that the United States confers on early career scientists. Paul Curtin, is Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Dr. Curtin's work focuses on the interface of Systems Biology, Computational Neuroscience, and Exposure Biology.He is an author of several dozen papers in these and related fields, and leads nationally-funded projects focusing on the role of environmental factors in neurodevelopment. With co-authors and collaborators on Environmental Biodynamics, he has contributed to the development of the Biodynamic Interface Conjecture and related theoretical perspectives dealing with the interactions of complex systems. Austen Curtin is a computational biologist and data scientist in the department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Her work focuses on the integration of dynamical computational methods in contexts relating to exposure biology and neurodevelopment. She has contributed to many peer-reviewed papers in these fields and continues to work on methodological advances in these domains. Christine Austin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.She received her PhD from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia in 2011, specializing in elemental bioimaging of tissues using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. She completed postdoctoral training at the University of Sydney, Australia and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA. Dr. Austin's research focus is developing novel analytical techniques to reconstruct histories of environmental exposures throughout life, including the prenatal and earlychildhood periods. Alessandro Giuliani is Senior Scientist at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian NIH). He is involved mainly in the generation and testing of soft physical and statistical models for life sciences, with a special emphasis on the elucidation of mesoscopic complex systems like network approach to protein structure/function, quantitative structure/activity relations in medicinal chemistry, analysis of physiological time series, and biophysical approaches to geneexpressionregulation. He is the author of many publications on a wide spectrum of research fields and has a solid teaching experience in applied statistics and research methodology. Linda S. Birnbaum is Scientist Emeritus and Former Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program. She is also Scholar in Residence at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.