title: [ON THE UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPMENT OF V.KH. VASILENKO'S PHILOSOPHICAL LEGACY: ON THE SOCIO-BIOLOGICAL ESSENCE OF THE DISEASE].
abstract: Social aspects of the concept of disease are considered in the context offurther development of philosophical tenets of V.Kh. Vasilenko. Biological aspects were discussed in earlier publications (see <<Clinical Medicine>> No 3, 4, 2014). The essence of human being is a socio-biological unity; the same is true of the human life and diseases viewed as biopsycho-socialphenomena. It is proposed to regard them as a result of incompatibility of two self-organizing systems, general (the environment or noosphere) and its part (an individuum). The disease is a consequence of the loss (impairment) of biological and social adaptability of organism to environmental changes ("reverse" natural selection) with the primacy of the social sphere.
authors.forename: Ya S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Tsimmerman
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Dimov
mesh_terms: D004194:Disease; D006801:Humans; D010686:Philosophy, Medical