Medicine and society: modus of interaction

• Main Authors: Alla Lantuch, Nina Merkulova
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University 2018-10-01
• Series: Український соціологічний журнал
• Online Access: https://periodicals.karazin.ua/usocjour/article/view/11539/11403

The article focuses on the features of interaction of medicine and society in modern conditions. It is emphasized that today human diseases are determined more and more by social causes. It is noted that the Hippocratic model of health care has already exhausted itself; the transition to a self-regulatory-prophylactic model is becoming ever more current. The paper emphasizes the urgency of addressing genetic safety issues, especially identifying the risk factors for the emergence of genetic pathology and developing recommendations for its prevention, performing genomic analysis, development of gene therapy, etc.. It is also emphasized that the self-regulatory-prophylactic model of healthcare actualizes the development of predicative medicine, the main purpose of which is to protect human life, to prevent the risks of diseases and their transmission to the following generation. This encourages further transformation of existing medicine model, namely, its changing to the preventive one. In comparison with prophylactic, predictive-preventive medicine is more widely applied; it is filled more with social content. Predictive-preventive medicine must prevent illnesses, reveal and instantly respond to everything that prevent from the preservation of human health. It is proved that the development of predictive-preventive medicine is possible only under the condition of confirming a new mode of interaction between medicine and society, meaning the engaging to implementation of human health care issues not only physicians, but other specialists: physicists, chemists, biologists, representatives of socio-humanistic sciences as well as sociologists.