© 2016 Valentina Ivanovna Kharitonova
Keywords: medical anthropology, bioethics, intercultural contacts, social work, language and cultural barriers, psychological assistance, ethnopsychiatry, nonconventional medicine, medical systems (practices, methods), Ayurveda, homeopathy, ART, evidence-based medicine
Abstract: This essay presents information on the work of the 10th International School of Medical Anthropology and Bioethics, which took place in Fall 2015 at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. The school was organized and conducted by the Russian Association of Medical Anthropologists, the Center for Medical Anthropology at the IEA named after N.N. Miklukho-Maklay, jointly with the Faculty of Clinical Psychology of Evdokimov Moscow State Medical University.