title: [Once again: theoretical pathology].
abstract: Theoretical pathology refers to the attempt to reintroduce methodical approaches from the humanities, philosophical logic and "gestalt philosophy" into medical research and pathology. Diseases, in particular disease entities and more complex polypathogenetic mechanisms of disease, have a "gestalt quality" due to the significance of their pathophysiologic coherence: they have a "gestalt". The Research group Theoretical Pathology at the Academy of Science in Heidelberg are credited with having revitalized the philosophical notion of "gestalt" for morphological and pathological diagnostics. Gestalt means interrelated schemes of pathophysiological significance in the mind of the diagnostician. In pathology, additive and associative diagnostic are simply not possible without considering the notion of synthetic entities in Kant's logic.
authors.affiliation: uweronika.bleyl@t-online.de
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Bleyl
mesh_terms: D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D005863:Gestalt Theory / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006809:Humanities / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D008128:Logic; D010336:Pathology / Q000266:history*; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*; D012106:Research / Q000266:history*