[The conception of human subjectivity vis-a-vis the basic concepts of theoretical and practical medicine]

Conceptions of human subjectivity have throughout ages had an impact on the defining the subject-matter of theoretical and practical research in the area of medicine. They have influenced the way the patient was perceived in relation to the social and natural environments, and they have also provided the basis upon which diagnostic and therapeutic conceptions could be constructed. The author presents her own proposals for defining such notions as medical theory, medical doctrine and school of medicine. The present study gives an account of the changes in the research agenda of medicine in particular historical epochs in conjunction with the changes in defining human subjectivity as the subject-matter of its research.