Description
This English-language book asks whether studying tumours can offer lessons or inspiration for the good functioning of human society. It presents a multicellular organism as a complex system made up of many cells that cooperate, while tumours result from abandoning cooperation and violating its basic principles. Drawing on general systems theory, the author explores parallels and extrapolations between the rules of cooperation and the ways they are violated in other complex systems, including human society. Alongside a closer examination of how tumours arise and develop, the book reflects on whether people, like tumour cells, also dangerously and self-destructively violate key rules that are essential to the proper functioning of the system of which they are part.
Information
Author: Šmardová Jana
Language: English
Publication date: January 24, 2024
Manufacturer: Masarykova univerzita - Munipres
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Biographies and autobiographies in english, Non-fiction literature in english
Type: Hardcover book
Pages: 350
ISBN/EAN: 9788028003760