Resumen

Rev Hum Med [online]. 2003, vol.3, n.1. ISSN 1727-8120.

In the article it is exposed the importance of the complexity thought as a methodological tool to approach human biology, medical activity and the medicine-society relationship. In the introduction it is pointed out that the new tendencies of knowledge and scientific practice lean out timidly as part of the Cuban scientific endeavor and that the knowledge of the theory of complexity is limited among health professionals. In the first section definitions of complexity thought and complex system are given, as well as their general features. Other important concepts are presented: attractors, holographic principle, non lineal dynamics, etc. In the second section the complex character of human biology is explained through recursivity, self-organization and the hologrammatical principle. The third and fourth section covers some ideas about the complexity of the medical activity and of the complex relationship that exists between medicine and society are offered, taking into account that this activity is not isolated from the remaining components of society

Palabras clave : MEDICINE.

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