History of Medicine. учебное пособие

The textbook "History of Medicine" has as its main goal to form a general understanding of medicine and its evolution in human society, to highlight the main stages and understand the patterns of its development. What does it mean to study "History of Medicine"? Above all, it is to know the totality of facts characterizing the state and development of medical knowledge, methods of treatment and disease prevention, and maintaining health in a particular society, state, culture, and civilization. This is achieved through the study of historical and medical sources - material, written, and visual. Establishing accurate and verified facts allows for the construction of a logical-theoretical model with the establishment of cause-and-effect relationships, sources of development, and historical fates of this phenomenon.