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    POLISH SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE - BETWEEN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND CLINICAL PRACTICE POLONYA TIP FELSEFESi OKULU - BiLIM FELSEFESi VE KLINIK UYGULAMA ARASINDA Prof. Dr. Bo#ena Plonka-Syroka, Agniesaka Kaémierezak Medical University Wroclaw, Department of Human Sciences Faculty of Pharmacy, Poland e-mail: bozena@plonka-syroka. pl kazmierczak. agnieszka@gmail. com Summary ‘The Polish school of the philosophy of medicine was developed in the second half ofthe 19° century. It was created as an interpretative school outside of the structure of universities and it focused physicians and philosophers with original and innovative methodological opinions who, inthe situation in which Polish land was divided between three neighbouring countries (Russa, Prussia and Austria), could not find employment in "university medical faculties. They earned their living by means of fee medical practice and they developed their scientific interests within Polish scientific associations as well as in the columns of medical and cultural maga- ines, such as Krytyks Lekarska” (Physician's Review). Only when Poland recovered independence in 1918 did some physiian-philosophers from this group receive academic postions and they made - as fr example Prof, ‘Wiadyslaw Szumowski and Prof. Tadeusz Bilikiewicz - permanent contributions to the development ofthe Po- lish standard of academic education in the area ofthe history and philosophy of medicine, Others, such as Prof Ladwik Fleck, although they had published their most important works already in the 30s ofthe 20th century, received academic positions only after the 2nd World War. It was Ludwik Fleck who the most was well known in the world ~ as an inspirer of T.S. Kuhn's concept ~ physician-philosopher, representative of the third gene- ration ofthe Polish school of the philosophy of medicine, The aim of this pape isto present the most important Persons and achievements ofthis school and inthis context profile and the output of Prof. Ludwik Fleck. ‘The development of clinical medicine standards in Europe since the middle of 18% century cau- sed serious and fundamental theoretical discussions concerning the scientific basis of medicine and {ts role among other natural sciences and human sciences, In those discussions, disputes conducted in philosophy at that time concerning the epistemological and physical basis of human knowledge ‘were reflected’. The reception of Newton’s physics®in the natural sciences caused dissemination of

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