Association of Medical Anthropologists in Russia – an Urgent Need?
Keywords:
medical anthropology, interdisciplinary studies, Association of medical anthropologists (AMA), institutionalization, medicalization, humanitarization of education, methodology of interdisciplinarity, conferences, scientific publications, health care, national health.Abstract
This publication presents results of a short survey conducted at the First international scientific symposium ‘Medical Anthropology in Russian and abroad’ (3-5 July 2013). The survey consisted of three questions which were suggested for discussion to Prof. Dmitry Mikhel (Doctor of Science, Philosophy), Prof. Radik Khayrullin (Doctor of Science, Medicine), Prof. Elena Kirilenko (Doctor of Science, Philosophy) and Prof. Vladimir Kurashov. Each of them expressed their opinion on such topics as how important it is to create an Association of medical anthropologists in Moscow/ Russia; how they see a ‘profile’ of a medical anthropologist in our country; what kind of education and background current medical anthropologists have and what their desired characteristics will be in the future; what the most urgent tasks of the Association are.
