TY - JOUR AU - Roolf, Peter L PY - 2019/11/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - CLINICAL SYSTEMICS: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK AND METHODOLOGY FOR ALLEVIATING PATHOLOGIES IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS JF - Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2019 Corvallis, OR, USA JA - ISSS-2019 VL - 63 IS - 1 SE - DO - UR - https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings63rd/article/view/3630 SP - AB - Clinical systemics is a framework and methodology induced from Western medicine for the purpose of identifying and treating pathologies in complex living systems. Motivated by climate change and other significant trends in the 21<sup>st</sup> century, clinical systemics is envisioned as a means of science-based, multidisciplinary collaboration and practice not only in social-ecological systems, but in other natural and artificial living systems as well. This paper will outline the philosophical underpinnings of such a framework and methodology, provide a contextual overview of the systems and complexity science project, and will describe the features of complex living systems, health, pathology, and healing. Building on these ideas, a vision for a clinical systemic framework and methodology will be articulated by drawing on examples from the history of Western medicine. And lastly, benefits and challenges of such a framework and methodology will be identified, followed by a suggested sequence of development and implementation. ER -