- ISBN: 9781846192036 | 184619203X
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 8/20/2007
| List of contributors | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Art and complexity: complexity from the outside | p. 5 |
| Diversity, interconnectivity and sustainability | p. 11 |
| Education and complexity | p. 33 |
| Introduction | p. 33 |
| Rethinking schooling through the 'logic' of emergence: some thoughts on planned enculturation and educational responsibility | p. 35 |
| Conceptualising the case in adult and higher-education research: a dynamic systems view | p. 38 |
| Educating awareness through literary experiences: understanding consciousness as an emergent phenomenon | p. 43 |
| References | p. 48 |
| Health and complexity | p. 51 |
| Introduction | p. 51 |
| Complexity in healthcare | p. 51 |
| Management and leadership complexity in healthcare | p. 53 |
| NHS: anarchy or perfection? | p. 54 |
| Riding the waves of change: using complex adaptive processes | p. 55 |
| 'Jam today': complexity theory and managing in the present | p. 56 |
| The healthcare vortex: understanding health, healthcare and healthcare policy as a complex adaptive system | p. 58 |
| Complexity in primary care | p. 60 |
| The consultation as a complex adaptive system | p. 60 |
| Primary healthcare reform: a complexity perspective | p. 62 |
| Clinical applications of complexity in healthcare | p. 63 |
| Chronic pain through the lens of complexity | p. 63 |
| Complexity, panic and primary care | p. 64 |
| Is disinfection chaotic? | p. 66 |
| Complexity in therapist-patient interactions: an exploration model using neurological physiotherapy and movement disorders as an example | p. 67 |
| Polychromatic modelling of complex biological factors: clinical applications | p. 68 |
| Nonlinear dynamics and blood glucose control | p. 70 |
| Conclusion | p. 71 |
| References | p. 71 |
| International relations and development | p. 77 |
| Introduction | p. 77 |
| Applying complexity to international affairs: 11 September and the war on terrorism | p. 78 |
| Can complexity save development theory? | p. 84 |
| References | p. 91 |
| Multi-agent systems and complexity | p. 93 |
| Introduction | p. 93 |
| Co-operative self-organising mechanisms for designing complex adaptive systems | p. 95 |
| Towards a general methodology for designing self-organising systems | p. 97 |
| Hypernetworks of agents in robot football | p. 99 |
| Bio-inspired agents | p. 104 |
| Systemic financial fragility as emergent property | p. 108 |
| References | p. 113 |
| Philosophy and complexity | p. 117 |
| Introduction | p. 117 |
| Newtonian science | p. 118 |
| Systems science | p. 120 |
| Complexity science | p. 124 |
| Complexity and (postmodern) philosophy | p. 127 |
| Conclusion | p. 131 |
| References | p. 132 |
| Politics and policy | p. 135 |
| Introduction | p. 135 |
| Difficult shift to complexity in political economic analysis | p. 136 |
| Filling in the gaps: complexity and policy process theory | p. 141 |
| References | p. 147 |
| Social theory and complexity | p. 149 |
| Introduction | p. 149 |
| The governance of complexity and the complexity of governance, revisited | p. 151 |
| Complexity and the bloggers: the rise of the blogosphere | p. 155 |
| Complexity, cities and social action: a consideration of the implications of the complexity frame of reference for praxis | p. 159 |
| References | p. 163 |
| Conclusion: making complexity real | p. 165 |
| Index | p. 169 |
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