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Understanding change in medicine and the biomedical sciences: Modeling change as interactions among flows with arrow diagrams

Fennimore, Todd F.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1307626543

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2011, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Cognitive Linguistics.
Building on Aristotle’s analysis, this thesis starts with a definition of change as the result of a network of influences operating to shape a particular outcome in manifesting a potential. It argues that change can be modeled as an interaction among flows, and that arrow diagrams are effective tools for such modeling. The thesis demonstrates how the phenomenology, ontology, and dynamics of change are prompted in the interpretation of arrow diagrams. A typology is presented that emerged from a corpus analysis of arrow diagrams sampled from medical and biomedical journals. In Chapter 2, the typology is applied to the analyses of arrow diagrams from this corpus. In Chapter 3, I propose that a systematic treatment of ways in which arrow diagramming are used to model change can become the basis for a new field that I dub “fluxemics.” Moving forward, this idea will be developed mathematically and tested empirically.
Per Aage Brandt, PhD (Advisor)
Peter Whitehouse, MD/PhD (Committee Member)
Mark Turner, PhD (Committee Member)
145 p.
Scientific Imaging; Systems Science
scientific reasoning; explanation; diagramming; cognitive science; modeling of change

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  • Fennimore, T. F. (2011). Understanding change in medicine and the biomedical sciences: Modeling change as interactions among flows with arrow diagrams [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1307626543

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Fennimore, Todd. Understanding change in medicine and the biomedical sciences: Modeling change as interactions among flows with arrow diagrams. 2011. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1307626543.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Fennimore, Todd. "Understanding change in medicine and the biomedical sciences: Modeling change as interactions among flows with arrow diagrams." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1307626543

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