Дискурс в медицине: краткий обзор мировой литературы

The well-known ancient Roman writer Pliny the Elder said, “There is no art more useful than medicine” [12]. According to the greatest Greek physician Hippocrates, “the art of medicine consists of three elements: the disease, the patient and the doctor” [12]. The doctor and the patient are the main participants in the treatment of the disease, so the corresponding result of their communication has a great influence on the effectiveness of the therapy itself. Successful communication is impossible without using the language and the texts created on its basis. The purpose of this theoretical work is to provide a brief overview of the most important theories about medical discourse, their current trends in world literature including the world literature in Polish and Russian.