About the Journal

Medical Anthropology and Bioethics (MAaB) is an electronic periodical. The journal was registered in Russia on March 2, 2010 (mass media registration certificate Эл № ФС77-39035; ISSN 2224-9680). This is the first Russian journal oriented towards the scientific branches reflected in its title. The journal is an international, peer-reviewed, bilingual publication, issued in Russian and English, with a focus on academic, educational and popular-scientific themes. MAaB was established by N. N. Mikloukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (Russian Academy of Sciences; 32A Leninskiy Prospekt, Moscow 119991) upon request from the Center for Medical Anthropology. The journal is supported by Russia’s Association of Medical Anthropologists.

Publishing frequency is two issues per year.

Authors are not charged for publishing their articles.

Open access policy. The journal provides access to its content based on the principle of free public access to academic research, thus contributing to the international exchange of knowledge.

We invite for cooperation experts from various disciplines and countries, engaged in medical anthropology/ethnology/ethnography, and bioethics, as well as adjacent academic branches (anthropology of consciousness, psychological anthropology, sociology of medicine, etc.).

The journal aims at uniting experts with an academic interest in problems of medical anthropology and bioethics – research areas currently developing quickly in many countries of the world, and at helping Russian and foreign experts to exchange information, establish academic contacts, organize joint studies, and hold academic events. Among the journal’s goals is covering crucial problems in the aforementioned academic branches, based on Russian and foreign materials.

The publication’s subject area fits in the aforementioned fields of study and materials from various regions of the world, with emphasis on the Russian situation and that in ex-Soviet countries. We will gladly accept articles in the frameworks of the following themes, problems and fields: specifics and integration of medical systems, history of medical systems and practices, history of health-related sciences, traditional and folk medicine, ethnomedicine, studies of mental health (including (ethno)psychiatry and (ethno)psychotherapy), social medicine, gerontology, (ethno)medical ethics and bioethics, medical ecology, ethnopharmacology and ethnobotanics, the political economy of health, narrative studies, STS in medicine, anthropology of medical professions, anthropology of infectious diseases, terminal and chronic diseases, studies of hospices and palliative health, anthropology of addictions, etc.

We see the advantage of the publication’s online format in the possibility to include large volumes of texts, photographs, audio and video materials, and to hold live discussions in the journal’s sections (including using online board formats). We do not plan to publish the journal on paper; however, there is the opportunity to re-publish the articles in other publications of IEA RAS in paper formats. Our authors may re-publish their articles in other publications in a paper format, with a mandatory reference to our electronic release, and given that re-publishing was agreed upon with our editorial board.