“Philosophy of Religion and Medicine in the Post-secular Age”: Review of the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference

Abstract

June 11-12, 2020 at the O. Bogomolets National Medical University online hosted the II International Scientific and Practical Conference "Philosophy of Religion and Medicine in the Post-Secular Age" (In memory of St. Luke (V. F. Voino-Yasenetskyi). The basic department in the organization of the event was the Department of Philosophy, Bioethics and History of Medicine. The directions of the conference participants' work remained traditional and focused on: Questions of religion and medicine in life and work of St. Luke (V. F. Voino-Yasenetskyi); Methodological and historical aspects of the relationships between religion and medicine in contemporary society; Human health in the context of philosophy, religion and medicine; Religion and clinical medicine; Actual problems of biomedical ethics in contemporary religious discourse; Religion as a social and spiritual determinant of individual and public health; Philosophy of religion and medicine: current challengesю. Along with NMU named after OO Bogomolets co-organizers of the conference were: Department of Religious Studies of the G. S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Personality Development Center "HUMANUS", Plovdiv (Bulgaria); Institute of Social Medicine and Medical Ethics at Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia).

Keywords

• philosophy of religion and medicine
• st. luke (v. f. voino-yasenetskyi)
• human health
• bioethics
• biomedical ethics