title: [The influence of changes in the human subjectivity concept of formation of physician-patient relations].
abstract: Changes in the human subjectivity concept, expressing influences of cultural and outlook elements on formation of object of the European medicine, have so much affected evolution of the discipline, that it is currently directed to bring an image of a human body to anatomy, to treat a course of a disease in medical aspect and to give to diagnostic processes and therapy a character of means which can be verified in an empirical way. The changes are also reflected in a patient - physician relation, which develops in that time. A direct nature of contacts between the treated and the treating persons was taken as grounds of the relation. But reasons of the privileged position of therapists in comparison to patients have changed. The paper aims to show main trends in development of the patient -physician relationship and to represent the changing reasons for superiority of the treating persons who are in a therapeutic relation with a patient.
authors.affiliation: Instytut Historyczny Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego.
authors.forename: Boźena
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Płonka-Syroka
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D049690:History, Ancient; D049692:History, Early Modern 1451-1600; D049691:History, Medieval; D049711:History, Modern 1601-; D010361:Patients / Q000266:history*; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*