"He was very opposed to reductionist approaches to understanding human behavior," said Dr. Folkman, co-author with Dr. Lazarus of a 1984 book, "Stress, Appraisal and Coping".
Scientists do get criticised for taking reductionist approaches and analysing with the head and not the heart (though people who do this seem to be missing the point of science) but images like these are, to me at least, every bit as wonderfully aesthetic as they are palaeontologically illuminating.
Still, designers often apply exclusively reductionist approaches to generate designs.
As alternatives to reductionist approaches there is also the first-person phenomenology and narrative understanding of mental illness.
For over six decades reductionist approaches to cancer chemotherapies including recent immunotherapy for solid tumors produced outcome failure-rates of 90% (±5) according to governmental agencies and industry.
Rather, system-driven approaches are viewed as supplementary to reductionist approaches, and can even include data derived via traditional statistical methods (Trochim et al. 2006).
Reductionist approaches to the sense of bodily ownership aim at accounting for the sense of ownership in terms of specific properties of bodily experiences.
Proposals that make irreducibility into a defining characteristic of mind or body are unacceptable; for they rule out reductionist approaches by fiat.
The current failure rates of claimed 'targeted' therapy, 'personalized' or 'precision' medicine for solid tumors of 90%% (±5) are the outcomes of such reductionist approaches [4 6].
This political construction of nature had begun during the colonial period in the Indian subcontinent (D'Souza 2006) which continued with reductionist approaches (Bandyopadhyay and Ghosh 2009).
With EIEE11, associated with mutations in SCN2A, incorporation of biological/pathophysiological contexts are helpful in clarifying the apparent genotype-phenotype mismatches which are captured with more reductionist approaches.
