Abstract

The article deals with the peculiarities of the development of the mankind, medicine, the art of healing in different periods (pre-industrial, industrial, post-industrial) of the pre-modern, modern, postmodern epochs. Particular attention is paid to the postmodern period the appearance of which is connected with the disturbance of a human to adapt to the extraordinary acceleration of the pace of scientific development as well as development of technology, biomedical technologies, the increase in the number of crises and catastrophes. The features of the postmodern period in which the mankind is are under consideration: dehumanization of society, culture, medicine; identity crisis of an individual, patient, doctor; transformation of medicine into a service sector; a gap between the achievements of the life sciences, modern biotechnologies and a disappearing art of healing. The problems of the post-COVID world, the nearest future of the mankind are discussed.

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