Medicine and small literary forms: from antiquity to new time (diachronic review)
Medicine and small literary forms: from antiquity to new time (diachronic review)

Author(s): Nedbailik Sabina, Natalia Dmitrieva, Gildi, Alexandra
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature, Philology, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: literature; small forms; epigram; doctor; genre; medicine; development
Summary/Abstract: This article deals with small literary forms and their historical role in creating the medical art and its servants` image and status in the European society. Actually, literature has always paid great attention to this class, which touches the most sensitive strings of social life. Thus, in the frame of diachronic approach to this topic the authors give a detailed review of main trends and periods of epigrammatic art evolution, beginning from Greek- Roman antiquity and up to Renaissance time. In this connection here are presented in original and translation numerous samples of epigrammatic poetry created by different authors, that have predetermined the most essential changes of the medical profession ideas, views and doctors` perception by ordinary and distinguished people. As for modern European epigrammatic art in general and its medical aspect in particular, it is greatly owing to progressive social, political, cultural and philosophical tendencies of Renaissance, widely known as the epoch of arts and education flourishing.

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