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Abstract
Do the parts explain the whole… or is the whole more than the sum of its parts? Medical science has developed by using the underlying idea that the proper way to comprehend human life and illness is to take the person apart. Then by identifying the components and how they operate or fail, we can know what the human being is, why people become ill and how to cure them. This reductionist approach has paid off in so many ways, allowing science to master and even overcome many diseases, that there can be no denying its usefulness.1