Edited by
Igor R. Efimov
Mark W. Kroll
Patrick J. Tchou

2009

Mechanisms and Practical Implications

Biomedical science has been driven in the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries by the promise to deliver lifesaving therapies against disease and to extend human life. Development of all branches of biomedical sciences, including cardiac electrophysiology, went through a periodic adherence to either reductionist or integration approaches.