Dehumanization of contemporary medicine: causes and remedies.

First, the mode of the reductionistic thinking should be mentioned. Contemporary medicine is based on the natural sciences, and in the natural sciences the reductionistic approach is not only very popular but very fruitful as well. This approach consists in the reduction of the studied phenomena to its most elementary level. Thus, psychological phenomena are reduced to the biological level, and the biological processes to chemistry and physics. A good historical example of such “reductionistic” tendency in medicine could be the cellular pathology of Rudolf Virchow, its contemporary equivalent is certainly molecular biology and pathology. At the present time, a similar tendency is connected with the molecular biology and pathology.