What tumors teach us – Parallels in cell and human behavior mardov Jana (2024)

This English-language book asks whether studying tumours can offer lessons or inspiration for the good functioning of human society. It presents a multicellular organism as a complex system made up of many cells that cooperate, while tumours result from abandoning cooperation and violating its basic principles. Drawing on general systems theory, the author explores parallels and extrapolations between the rules of cooperation and the ways they are violated in other complex systems, including human society. Alongside a closer examination of how tumours arise and develop, the book reflects on whether people, like tumour cells, also dangerously and self-destructively violate key rules that are essential to the proper functioning of the system of which they are part.