09.09.2025

Наталия Шок

Co-editors of the special issue “East European post-communist legacy in medicine, health care, and bioethics”. 

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Ana S. Iltis & Nataliya Shok
Monash Bioeth. Rev. 40 (Suppl 1), 1–5 (2022). 
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40592-022-00173-5

This issue focuses on bioethics in Eastern Europe and Russia, supplementing the existing publications from these regions, with each paper addressing a specific bioethical issue or case. Taken together, the contributions help to reveal trends in the development of bioethical discussions in the territories of states that historically, during the Cold War, were parts of the socialist world with a particular model of healthcare.

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The unity of philosophical theory and medical practice in Galen’s views

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Balalykin, D.A., A.P. Shcheglov and N.P. Shok
The paper analyzes the famous work «Quod optimus medicus sit idem philosophus» («On that the best physician is also a philosopher»). The authors translated the original text to let using it by Russian-language scientists within the complex study of medicine of 1st–2nd centuries C.E. in the context of the history of natural science.

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Медицина периода эллинизма, историческое значение работ К. Галена

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D.A. Balalykin, N.P. Shok
Article is devoted to actual issue of history of medicine – criticism of a domestic historiography of scientific heritage of Galen. In article is in detail considered the unique role of Alexandria school and its largest representatives in development of medicine of the Hellenic period.

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Нistory of medicine as subject of scientific research

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D.A. Balalykin, N.P. Shok
Article is devoted to topical issue of modern history of science – to studying of circumstances of origin, formation and development of medical science (as private area of the general history of science) and practical knowledge (as “doctoring arts”) in a context of modern theoretic and methodological approaches of the general history and the philosophy of science.

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The ratio of the spiritual and physical in Galen’s understanding of health and disease. Part III. (The example of the work «On the passions and errors of the soul»)

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Dmitrii A. Balalykin, Nataliay P. Shok, Andrei P. Scheglov
The article is devoted to the analysis of important historical and scientific problem – the development of rational medicine, and contribution to this development its most outstanding representative of Galen.

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Pythagorean Legacy in Medicine

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Nataliya Shok, Andrey Shcheglov.
DOI:  https://doi.org/10.25205/1995-4328-2019-13-1-307-314
Article focuses on the influence of Pythagorean teaching on medicine. This allows to examine the history of medicine as part of the philosophy and history of science. Among the philosophical ideas of the Pythagoreans significant to medicine was highlighted the ideas of opposites, mathematical proof and harmony.

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The Pythagoreansʼ influence on medicine: a historical fact or problems of interpretation? Part 1

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Dmitry A. Balalykin, Nataliya P. Shok
The article deals with the influence of Pythagoreans’ views on medicine. The authors clarify a point of view that has been developed in historiography, according to which during Antiquity there existed a medical school that was formed under the influence of Pythagorean philosophy.

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The apodictic method in the tradition of ancient Greek rational medicine: Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen

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Dmitry A. Balalykin, Nataliya P. Shok
The authors suggest a defi nition of the apodictic method that can be applied to the history of medicine and reveals its development in the works of Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen. The apodictic method of proof in medicine is anatomical dissections, the rational doctrine of general pathology and clinical systematics.

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