Nataliya Shok
Adjacent fields of research are of much interest in modern medical science — neurobiology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, robotics, etc. At the same time, if the existence of high-tech medical equipment is disregarded, it is possible to discover that modern medicine exists not only within the ethics of Hippocrates but also depends in many ways on his ideas in the fields of theory and practice. This fact underscores the important methodological role of the history of medicine in the emergence of the researching doctor. The comprehensive nature of posing scientific problems in this field allows us to investigate the circumstances, emergence and development of the scientific method in medicine and identify epistemological reserves for promising scientific discoveries. This ensures the formation of the researcher’s perception of the world based on the understanding of the continuity of the development of modern scientific medicine and rational medicine of the preceding centuries. There is an opportunity to find the answers to important methodological questions: 1) how substantial are the differences between the medicine of antiquity and that of the 19th century; and 2) is it possible to assume the existence of a systematic appraisal of the approaches in medical theory and practice, with which it becomes possible to describe and analyze the prerequisites of discoveries at various historical stages?
