Understanding change in medicine and the biomedical sciences: Modeling change as interactions among flows with arrow diagrams
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-case13076265432021-08-03T05:34:10Z Understanding change in medicine and the biomedical sciences: Modeling change as interactions among flows with arrow diagrams Fennimore, Todd F. Scientific Imaging Systems Science scientific reasoning explanation diagramming cognitive science modeling of change 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. 2011-08-22 English text Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1307626543 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1307626543 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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