IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-642-88343-9_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Systems Theory and Biology—View of a Theoretician

In: Systems Theory and Biology

Author

Listed:
  • Mihajlo D. Mesarović

    (Systems Research Center, Case Institute of Technology)

Abstract

There exists a considerable diversity of opinion on what constitutes the systems approach to biology. On one side of the spectrum the systems approach is considered to be the application of techniques and instruments for measurements and signal analysis (so-called bio-instrumentation); further down the line is bio-engineering concerned with the application of the “engineering principles” in the study of the biological problems. On the other side of the spectrum, the systems approach is considered to be a search for some general biological laws which govern the behavior and evolution of living matter in a way analogous to the relation of the physical laws and non-living matter. (Often the latter viewpoint is presented as part of a scientific philosophy1,2.)

Suggested Citation

  • Mihajlo D. Mesarović, 1968. "Systems Theory and Biology—View of a Theoretician," Springer Books, in: M. D. Mesarović (ed.), Systems Theory and Biology, pages 59-87, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-88343-9_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-88343-9_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-88343-9_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.