title: Chronobiology meets the need for integration in a reductionist climate of biology and medicine.
abstract: One of us introduces a chronobiology course to students at the University of Milan, Italy, with a succinct statement that may well serve to summarize the foregoing 24 points. Its few lines distill the preceding details and formulate the raison d'être of Chronobiology: Chronobiology is: not only a science in its own right; not only a methodology; not only a new kind of statistical analysis; not just an aspect of biology, but a new way of invariably approaching any problem in biology, notably medicine.
authors.affiliation: Chronobiology Laboratories, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Halberg
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cornélissen
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Carandente
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D002909:Chronobiology Phenomena; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D016208:Databases, Factual; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D006801:Humans