From empirical medicine – to analytical medicine


DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18565/therapy.2023.10.139-147

Volkova N.I., Volkov A.V.

Rostov State Medical University of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia, Rostov-on-Don
Abstract. The article examines the crisis in medical science and practice caused by the contradiction between the volume of accumulated knowledge and the methodology for its development, and proposes a methodological approach to the further development of the general theory of medicine. The concepts of the object, subject and method of medicine are clarified, a definition of health is given as the body’s ability to function indefinitely. Two forms of ill health are identified – disease and functional failure, while the term «disease» is interpreted as a set of processes leading to a loss of balance in the body and disruption of its recovery. Along with this, an analytical method for diagnosing a disease is described, a classification of diseases from the standpoint of analytical medicine is proposed, and urgent tasks of medical semiotics are outlined.
Keywords: medical theory, analytical medicine, health, disease
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About the Autors

Natalya I. Volkova, MD, professor, head of the Department of internal medicine No. 3, Rostov State Medical University of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia. Address: 344022, Rostov-on-Don, 29 Nakhichevansky Lane.
E-mail: n_i_volkova@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-7835
Andrey V. Volkov, executive director of Medical Consilium LLC.
E-mail: 66556687@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8985-1770

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