(Русский) Медицинская антропология : учебное пособие

The textbook outlines the goals and objectives of medical anthropology as an interdisciplinary field of scientific knowledge and discusses the range of its main problems. The most significant subject areas of the discipline are considered: health and illness in the context of culture, healing systems (ethnomedicine and biomedicine), social and cultural problems of reproductive and mental health, etc.

It meets the requirements of federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For researchers, teachers and students of humanitarian and medical universities, studying undergraduate and graduate programs, all those interested in medical anthropology.

Bioethics in the context of history: philosophical research of bioethical movement

ebook(I. V. Michel)

Bioethics in historical context: philosophical studies of bioethical movements: monograph / I. V. Michel. Saratov: Sarat. GOS. tehn. University, 2015. 248 p.

ISBN 978-5-7433-2805-5

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This monograph presents a philosophical reconstruction of the main stages  of the bioethics movement development. Bioethics before becoming an intellectual critical enterprise initiated during the Nuremberg trial of Nazi medical crimes and was continued in the attempts of the educated public in different countries to understand the ethical, legal and social implications of developments in biomedicine, biotechnology, and scientific and technical progress in general.

Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences

Sociological reflexions on the neurosciences обложка(by Martyn Pickersgill, Ira Van Keulen)

ISBN-13: 978-1780526324

ISBN-10: 1780526326

The neurosciences are the new cutting edge in biomedicine, and this is the first book to take a sociological imagination to this field. The neurosciences are more than a collection of scientific practices they offer up new ways of thinking about mind, body and society.

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