Published: 2016-12-31

The phenomenon of the disease in Adam Wrzosek’s philosophy of medicine

Anna Oksiak-Podborączyńska
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae
Section: Humanistic Foundations of Environmental Protection
https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2016.14.4.01

Abstract

This article attempts to recreate definition of the disease by Adam Wrzosek, philosopher and physician, who lived and was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a member of the Poznan School of History of Medicine, one of the founders of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Poznan. In the article, the author recreates the definition of the disease, given by Wrzosek in a short article, “Determination of the concept of disease.” Although the definition proposed by Wrzosek in that article is not explicitly defined, quite clearly reflects his approach to the problem of defining the disease.

Keywords:

Adam Wrzosek, philosophy of medicine, disease, definition of the disease, disease concept

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Oksiak-Podborączyńska, A. (2016). The phenomenon of the disease in Adam Wrzosek’s philosophy of medicine. Studia Ecologiae Et Bioethicae, 14(4), 9–25. https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2016.14.4.01

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