The Western Medical Tradition and Typology of “Kinds of Medicine”
Keywords:
Western medical tradition, kinds of medicine, typology of medicine, Western Europe, historiographyAbstract
The article summarizes the approaches of Western historians of medicine to the typology of the Western medical tradition based on kinds of medicine”: bedside, library, hospital, laboratory and public. Currently, the history of medicine offers one of brightest examples of overcoming disciplinary boundaries. The very nature of this discipline in-volves research at the crossroads of history (in the traditional sense) and medicine. It became a "mix-tures of genres" in the 2nd half of the XX century,when representatives of social history, demogra-phy, psychology, anthropology, literary criticism and linguistics began studying it. In the last dec-ades, the history of medicine has evolved from a closed specifi c discipline, primarily oriented to-wards medical students, into a fl exible one, open to a variety of approaches and research trends on the front edge of historical science [1, p. 419].
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