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.
Master’s Thesis by Nataliya Shok.
Medicine occupies a special place among the natural sciences: its subject is the human being. Medicine studies human’s diseases, preventing and treating them, and making people better. Accordingly, it deals with various gnoseological issues, part biological, part physical, part philosophical.
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.
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.
D.A. Balalykin, A.P. Shcheglov, N.P. Shok
In an analysis of Galen’s “Adhortatio ad artes addiscendas”, the authors examine its epistemological model. One of the main theses of Galen is the quality of the human soul (the presence of intelligent design within it), providing for the possibility of rationally exploring the surrounding world. The result of rational-empirical activity is the gaining of true knowledge.
N.P. Shok
One of the topical issues in medicine remains identifying the historically proven causes of the emergence of hospital care. Historiography holds an opinion about the bloom of this socio-medical phenomenon between the IV and V centuries. At the same time the circumstances that aff ected its rapid development have not yet been exhaustively researched.
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.