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

• Main Author: N. A. Khlystova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Siberian State Medical University (Tomsk) 2008-06-01
• Series: Bûlleten' Sibirskoj Mediciny
• Subjects: ноосфера; биомедицинская этика; антропологический кризис; социальный стресс; экзистенциальный вакуум; этика глобальной ответственности; личностная деструкция человека; новая антропологическая парадигма; biomedical ethics; anthropological crisis; social stress; global responsibility ethics; human identity destruction; new anthropolog ical paradigm
• Online Access: https://bulletin.tomsk.ru/jour/article/view/3379
• ISSN: 1682-0363; 1819-3684

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.