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December 20, 2017New England Journal of Medicine212 citations

Putting the Patient Back Together — Social Medicine, Network Medicine, and the Limits of Reductionism

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JGJeremy A. GreeneJohns Hopkins University
Joseph Loscalzo
Joseph LoscalzoBroad Institute

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Network biologists, in focusing on interrelational structures emerging from complex interactions among genes, proteins, internal milieu, and external environment, echo the social science view that biomedical reductionism misses crucial aspects of human disease.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a17c9001b114e5976b47c3dhttps://doi.org/10.1056/nejmms1706744
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