Complex Disease and the New Clinical Sciences
- 26 April 2002
- journal article
- special viewpoints
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 296 (5568), 698-700
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.296.5568.698
Abstract
Medical research today is dominated by a genocentric point of view. At the same time, clinical discovery and patient-oriented research have become less common. Here, I suggest that these developments are interdependent, each representing the flip side of an inaccurate view of how clinical advance occurs.Keywords
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