On the Future of Medicine and Different Approaches to Medical Anthropology in Social and Biological Sciences

Authors

  • Kurlenkova A.S. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS
  • Khayrullin R.M. Ulyanovsk State University

Keywords:

medical anthropology, P4 medicine, Leroy Hood, Paul Pierre Broca, Karl Ernst Von Baer, Zinaida Ermolieva, Sergey Botkin, anatomy, physical anthropology, ethnomedicine, Avicenna, compliance.

Abstract

R. M. Khayrullin pays attention to such questions as individualized approach to patient care (the goal ‘to treat the patient, not the disease’); new challenges to modern public health systems (rise of cardiovascular diseases, obesity, oncology); “P4 Medicine” by Leroy Hood (Predictive, Personalized, Preventive, Participatory); compliance of patients. The interview addresses differences in understanding the subject and methods of ‘medical anthropology’, the Soviet academic tradition, as well as possibilities of uniting natural-science and ethnographic approaches in studies of human health and diseases.

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Published

2021-02-01

Issue

2013 — No. 2 (6)

Section

EDUCATION / Interviews