From empirical medicine – to analytical medicine
- Authors: Volkova N.I.1, Volkov A.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Rostov State Medical University of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia
- Issue: Vol 9, No 10 (2023)
- Pages: 139-147
- Section: LECTURES & REPORTS
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/2412-4036/article/view/626325
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18565/therapy.2023.10.139–147
- ID: 626325
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Abstract
The article examines the crisis in medical science and practice caused by the contradiction between the volume of accumulated knowledge and the methodology for its development, and proposes a methodological approach to the further development of the general theory of medicine. The concepts of the object, subject and method of medicine are clarified, a definition of health is given as the body’s ability to function indefinitely. Two forms of ill health are identified – disease and functional failure, while the term «disease» is interpreted as a set of processes leading to a loss of balance in the body and disruption of its recovery. Along with this, an analytical method for diagnosing a disease is described, a classification of diseases from the standpoint of analytical medicine is proposed, and urgent tasks of medical semiotics are outlined.
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Natalya I. Volkova
Rostov State Medical University of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia
Author for correspondence.
Email: n_i_volkova@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4874-7835
MD, professor, head of the Department of internal medicine No. 3, Rostov State Medical University of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia
Russian Federation, Rostov-on-DonAndrey V. Volkov
Rostov State Medical University of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia
Email: 66556687@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8985-1770
executive director of Medical Consilium LLC
Russian Federation, Rostov-on-DonReferences
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