Philosophy and medicine: eternal themes and contemporary issues

The book refers to the fundamental problems of medicine, which did not receive sufficient lighting in the scientific and educational literature, in a wide thematic horizon: in the perspective of its mythological and religious foundations, in the context of worldview universal culture, in the optics of classical, non-classical and post-class science, in the light of basic areas of modern philosophy, from the standpoint of artistic and ideas of medical students. Introducing philosophy as the art of questioning, the author carries out a poststructuralist analysis of the problematic features of the organization and functioning of a modern clinic, embodied in figures norms, views, space, recognition, pain and death. In the mirror of philosophical reflection - the problems of human existence in the light of new biomedical technologies.

The book is addressed to a wide range of readers, its target audience is medical workers, teachers, students and graduate students of medical educational institutions