Бюллетень сибирской медицины (Jun 2008)

Phenomenon of medical culture Part 2. World outlook component of medical culture

  • N. A. Khlystova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.20538/1682-0363-2008-2-59-69
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 2
pp. 59 – 69

Abstract

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Medical activity, which always includes the necessity to solve a system of logical, gnoseological, axiological, and praxiological problems as sociated with the process of diagnostics and treatment of a patient, can be successful only with high culture of a specialist. It is a moral obligation of a medical practician to become a man of culture. Based on a systematic approach, the paper presents medical culture as a specific subsystem of general culture, whose mastering starts in childhood, develops in university, and continues for the whole life, demanding colossal mental ener gies. Part 2 reveals the content of world outlook and philosophic-anthropological aspects of medical culture, grounds the necessity of the revise of the existing anthropological paradigm.

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