Skip to main content
Journal cover image

From Trees to Rhizomes.

Publication ,  Journal Article
Rosenberg, N
Published in: Perspect Biol Med
2016

This essay argues for a reorientation in medicine, a reorientation that integrates Descartes's tree-like approach to medical knowledge, which positions medical care in traditional, vertically hierarchical processes of patient differentiation, with the rhizome-like approach proposed by Deleuze and Guattari, which offers a more horizontal, weblike approach to patient care. The result would be a symbiosis that better uses the strengths of both models to treat patients.

Duke Scholars

Published In

Perspect Biol Med

DOI

EISSN

1529-8795

Publication Date

2016

Volume

59

Issue

2

Start / End Page

246 / 252

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • General & Internal Medicine
  • 5002 History and philosophy of specific fields
  • 5001 Applied ethics
  • 2203 Philosophy
  • 2202 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences
 

Citation

APA
Chicago
ICMJE
MLA
NLM
Rosenberg, N. (2016). From Trees to Rhizomes. Perspect Biol Med, 59(2), 246–252. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2017.0009
Rosenberg, Noah. “From Trees to Rhizomes.Perspect Biol Med 59, no. 2 (2016): 246–52. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2017.0009.
Rosenberg N. From Trees to Rhizomes. Perspect Biol Med. 2016;59(2):246–52.
Rosenberg, Noah. “From Trees to Rhizomes.Perspect Biol Med, vol. 59, no. 2, 2016, pp. 246–52. Pubmed, doi:10.1353/pbm.2017.0009.
Rosenberg N. From Trees to Rhizomes. Perspect Biol Med. 2016;59(2):246–252.
Journal cover image

Published In

Perspect Biol Med

DOI

EISSN

1529-8795

Publication Date

2016

Volume

59

Issue

2

Start / End Page

246 / 252

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • General & Internal Medicine
  • 5002 History and philosophy of specific fields
  • 5001 Applied ethics
  • 2203 Philosophy
  • 2202 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences