[General human pathology and methodology of medicine].

The most important methodological problems of modern medicine, such as sociobiological relationships, the methodological and social aspects of teaching of normalcy, health, and diseases, physiological/pathological ratios, determinism, casualty and etiology, a part and the whole, regional and systemic in the light of the systems approach, diagnosis in the light of conception, etc. To solve these problems is inseparably linked with the assessment and analysis of general theoretic and methodological issues outlined in the "General Human Pathology" (the 2nd edition) by D. S.

Trends in the development of medical ethics in the USSR.

The study of professional ethics has a long tradition in the Soviet Union; medical ethics is a code of conduct as well as an academic discipline. The paper discusses the ethical issues in intensive care, the definition of death, abortion, euthanasia, and the moral aspects of medical mistakes.