Lee T J
Catholic Universitiy Medical College.
Uisahak. 1994;3(1):30-7.
In the primitive ages the system of thought about health and disease was a closed system of thought which had the premise of witchcraft. In the ancient and middle ages the problems of health and disease had been dealt with within logical thinking but the phenomena of human life had been explained metaphysically and the medical problems had been inferred from deductive logic. The abnormalities of health problems which were inferred from deductive logic had not been substantiated because anatomy, physiology and technology had not been advanced far enough. In the Renaissance and modern ages the knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology of living body have begun to increase. The human body could be explained in the terms of structure and function of the body as a machine. Approaching this way the disease has been understood as the abnormality of structure or function of the body and the problems of health and disease are inferred from inductive logic. ...
在原始时代，关于健康与疾病的思想体系是一个以巫术为前提的封闭思想体系。在古代和中世纪，健康与疾病问题是在逻辑思维范围内处理的，但人类生命现象却被形而上学地解释，医学问题则从演绎逻辑中推导出来。由于解剖学、生理学和技术发展不够充分，从演绎逻辑推导出来的健康问题异常情况并未得到证实。在文艺复兴和现代时期，对活体的解剖学、生理学和病理学知识开始增加。人体可以从作为一部机器的身体结构和功能方面来解释。以这种方式，疾病被理解为身体结构或功能的异常，健康与疾病问题则从归纳逻辑中推导出来。……
