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A PERSONAL VIEW

Homeostasis: a plea for a unified approach

The Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, United Kingdom

Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: R. H. S. Carpenter, The Physiological Laboratory, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, UK (E-mail: rhsc1{at}cam.ac.uk)

Abstract

Accompanying the progressive erosion of a coherent sense of physiology as an intellectual discipline, there has been a tendency to lose sight of the homeostatic principles that underpin physiological science, and to teach them in an oversimplified form. When (as is increasingly the case) these principles are rediscovered, they are often treated as something both novel and distinct from homeostasis, fragmenting what is best understood and taught as a unified whole. This article urges a more unitary approach to homeostasis, and attempts to show how such an approach can be presented.

Key words: education; control systems; feedback; allostasis

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