Integrated Science 2050: Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Health

Summary

The authors of the Integrated Science: Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Health were asked how you would see the future of your field 30 years later. This chapter presents the authors’ views on this subject in 2050.

The Al-Samah dance.

In the above poem, Hushang Ebtehaj says, a kind of patience is to the dear; no kind of patience is to the dearest. Below, we say, a sight of doubt is in the dear; no sight of doubt is in the dearest. Here, we mean ourselves discipline, field, or branch of the science of the dear and the integrated sciences of the dearest – which can be generalized to the meaning of the existence of the dear and the unified existence of all existences of the dearest. Indeed, the above poem indicates how much passion humankind has to think from above, and the below one is the reasoning behind this passionate performance.

[Adapted with permission from the Association of Science and Art (ASA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN); Artwork made by Saba Sajaditabar; Nastaʼlīq prepared by http://nastaliqonline.ir/ ]

The puzzle of Integrated Science: Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Health

“In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.”

Robert J. Shiller