Dr. Vuk Stambolović is a pioneer of alternative medicine in Serbia and a veteran of the fight for human health, with the patient, not the disease, in the center of attention. His latest book “Renaissance in Medicine: From the Object Patient to the Co-Creator of Their Own Health” presents the specific properties of official and alternative medicine and given these properties, points to the partial approach to the first, and the holistic approach to the second, more therapeutic orientation. The author states that the methods of alternative medicine have a significant therapeutic advantage over official medicine, not only because of their holistic approach, but also because they have far fewer iatrogenic consequences, and are far more economical. The Renaissance in Medicine is a kind of guide that helps us, in accordance with the new image of multidimensional man, to see health from many angles, not only medical, but also socio-economic, political, cultural, and spiritual, and offers a comprehensive vision of the Renaissance in medicine.

Bio:

Dr. Vuk Stambolović, retired associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, former director of the Institute of Social Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade – is a pioneer in the local promotion and institutionalization of alternative medicine. This engagement originated from the framework of social medicine and the consequent study of human rights and health, and could be presented as social acupuncture, i.e., as stimulating life flows within the immediate and wider community.

Typical examples of this stimulation are the establishment of the first homeopathy school in Serbia in 1997, the launch of the process that led to the establishment of the Serbian Medical Association’s Section for Traditional Medicine, of which he was the first president, and the writing of the first bylaw. in Serbia, designing and defining the subject Community Physician who was introduced to regular classes at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade.

Alone or in collaboration with other authors, he has published over 90 bibliographic items in domestic and foreign publications, as well as nine books. According to the decision of the Personnel Commission of the Medical Faculty in Belgrade (No. 8956, December 26, 1986), the first book he published, “Medicine – Jurisdiction and Alternative”, was not “in accordance with dialectical materialism” and therefore rejected the proposal of the Department of Social medicine to be promoted to the title of assistant professor. The decision was in force until 2000.