MEDICINE: DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONS

Authors

  • Markov B.V. Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg)

Keywords:

doctor, technologies, treatment, patient, personality

Abstract

Relationships between a doctor, a patient and society got different configurations in pre-technological and technological eras. These relations have always been vested in mystery. A healer as a representative of a special caste has always evoked not only respect, but mistrust and fear. However, his relationships with the patient implied trust and mutual help. In the era of technicism, we experience mutual alienation provoked by lack of inter-personal communication. This affects different aspects of life, including quality of treatment. The alienation brings about the fact that society and the sick appear not to be ready to meet each other.

References

  1. Foucault, M. (2009) Psikhicheskaia bolezn’ i lichnost’ [Mental Illness and Psychology], SPb., Gumanitarnaia akademiia.

Author Biography

  • Markov B.V. , Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg)

    Academic degrees, membership in RAS and RAMS:

    • Doctor of Philosophy,

    Place of main work, position:

    • Professor, Saint Petersburg State University since 1974, since 1989 - as a professor, from 1989 to 1994 - head of the Department of Ontology and Theory of Knowledge, and from 1994 to 2014 - Head of the Department of Philosophical anthropology.

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Published

2021-02-18

Issue

2015 — No. 1 (9)

Section

SCIENCE / Articles