THE PROBLEM OF "FUNCTIONAL" DISEASES IN MODERN CLINICAL MEDICINE: PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Karpin1, Vladislav Denisovich Sokolov2
1Surgut State University, 1, Lenin av., Surgut, 628412, Russia
2Medical Academy of Crimean Federal University, Lenin Boulevard, 5/7, Simferopol, 7295006, Republic of Crimea, Russia
Keywords: structure and function, functional diseases, philosophical and methodological analysis, failure of functionalism
Abstract
The division of diseases into organic and functional has its own long history and, despite the significantly increased technical capabilities of studying the structural and functional features of vital activity both in normal and in various pathological processes, still continues to divide scientists into two opposite camps. The article provides a brief historical and philosophical analysis of the problem under study in an attempt to prove the inconsistency of the functional concept of general human pathology. As an example, the most common functional diseases of the gastrointestinal tract are given, in which structural disorders are localized in the central nervous system.
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