Authors

DONIKA Alyona Dimitrievna (Russia, Volgograd)

  • Academic degrees: Ph.D. (Medicine), Sc.D. (Sociology)
  • Current employment, position: Executive Secretary of the scientific journal “Bioethics”, Volgograd State Medical University
  • Academic interests: sociology of Medicine
  • E-mail: addonika@yandex.ru

DOBKIN DE RIOS Marlene (USA, Placentia)

  • Academic degrees: Ph.D., Anthropology (1972)
  • Education: NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellow (1975-6, 1977)
  • D. Anthropology, University of California, Riverside (1972)
  • A. Anthropology, New York University (1962)
  • A. Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York (1959)
  • Current employment, position: Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton
  • Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine

EIGNER Dagmar (Austria, Viena)

  • Academic degrees: Ph.D.
  • Education: Studies of physiology, psychology, social and cultural anthropology, and philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria
  • Music (piano, composition) at the Conservatory of Vienna, Austria
  • Current employment, position: Associate professor for Medical Anthropology at the Medical University of Vienna
  • President of the Austrian Society for Medical Anthropology
  • E-mail: dagmar.eigner@meduniwien.ac.at

ERMAKOVA Elena Evgenievna (Russia, Tyumen)

  • Academic degrees: Ph.D in Philology (2005)
  • E-mail: elenaprema@mail.ru

GURYLYOVA Marina Elisovna (Russia, Kazan)

  • Academic degrees: Sc.D. (Medicine)
  • Current employment, position: the professor of chair of bioethics and the medical right of Kazan state medical University, the chairman of Local ethical Committee, member of Republic ethical Committee.
  • E-mail: elenaprema@mail.ru

KAZNACHEEV Vlail Petrovich (Russia, Novosibirsk)

  • Academic degrees: Sc.D in Medicin

KHRUSTALEV Yuri Mikhailovich (Russia, Moscow)

  • Academic degrees: Sc.D. in Philosophy
  • Current employment, position: Head of the Chair of Philosophy and Political Science at the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov
  • Academic interests: philosophical problems of science and medicine, ethics and bioethics
  • E-mail: ymhrus70@yandex.ru

KOEKINA Olga Ivanovna (Russia, Moscow)

  • Academic degrees: Ph.D. (Medicine)
  • Current employment: Director of the Scientific Research of Consciousness Support Fund, Russia; director of the Brain and Consciousness Research Global Scaling University, USA-Germany.
  • Academic interests: neurophysiology, neurology, biophysics, psychophysiology, reflexotherapy, extrasensory perception, biocorrection, clairvoyance, telekinesis.

KRIPPNER Stanley (Oakland, USA)

  • Academic degrees: Ph.D., Professor of Psychology
  • Education: Northwestern University in Evanston, University of Wisconsin
  • Current employment, position: executive faculty member and Professor of Psychology at Saybrook University in Oakland, California
  • The American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology 2002, and the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award, International Society for the Study of Dreams

KURLENKOVA Alexandra Sergeevna (Russia, Moscow)

  • Education: M.A. in Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, USA), Department of Bioethics, 2011.
  • A., Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia); major in Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication, 2008.
  • Current employment, position: researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Group of Medical Anthropology
  • E-mail: askurlenkova@yandex.ru; ask88@case.edu

LAZAR Imre (Hungary, Budapest)

  • Academic degrees: Ph.D.
  • Education: Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest School of Economics, Brunel University
  • Current employment, position: Head of Medical Anthropological Research Group at Inst. of Behavioral Sciences Semmelweis University, associate professor at Institute of Communication and Social Sciences Károli Gáspár University of Reformed Church, Budapest;
  • founder and convenor of Sacral Communicatioon and Healing Network of European Association of Social Anthropologists;
  • head of Central East European Society of Behavioral Medicine

LIKHOMANOV Alexander Evgenievich (Russia, Volgograd)

  • Education: Volgograd State University – Department of Archaeology of Ancient and Medieval History (BA), 2008. The Department of Religious Studies (MA) 2010.
  • Current employment, position: independent researcher
  • Academic interests: medical anthropology, prehistoric culture, ancient and modern ritual activities and studies magic and the occult
  • E-mail: Natura-kunst@yandex.ru
  • Skype: likhomanov_alexander

LOUE Sana (USA, Cleveland)

  • Academic degrees: M.S.S.A. Social Work, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) (2008); Ph.D. Anthropology, CWRU (2004); Ph.D. Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles (1993); M.PH. Epidemiology, San Diego State University (1988); J.D. Law, University of San Diego (1980); Ph.D. (Medicine) (1994)
  • Education: M.S.S.A. Social Work, CWRU, Cleveland (2008); PhD. Anthropology, CWRU, Cleveland (2004); PhD. Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles (1993); M.PH. Epidemiology, San Diego State University, California (1988); J.D. Law, University of San Diego, California (1980); M.A. Education, University of West Florida, Pensacola (1976); B.A. Social Welfare, University of West Florida, Pensacola (1975)
  • Current employment, position: Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Bioethics; Psychiatry; Global Health; Director of Center for Minority Public Health; Clinic of High-tech Medicine (Moscow region), pediatrician
  • E-mail: sana.loue@case.edu

MIKHEL Irina Vladimirovna (Russia, Saratov)

  • Academic degrees: PhD (1995)
  • Education: Saratov State University. N.G. Chernyshevsky, Faculty of History (1989); postgraduate study in the department. philosophy of the Saratov State University. N.G. Chernyshevsky (1995)
  • E-mail: irinamikhel@yandex.ru

MOISEEVA Oksana Nikolaevna (Russia, Moscow)

  • Education: Voronezh State Medical Academy. N.N. Burdenko (pediatrician), Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry. A.I. Evdokimova, Department of Philosophy, Biomedical Ethics and Humanities (postgraduate study)
  • Current employment, position: Senior Lecturer of the Department of Philosophy, Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry A.I. Evdokimova
  • Academic interests: philosophy of integrative medicine, Russian philosophy of total unity, bioethics, medical anthropology, transpersonal psychology, psychosomatics, studies of magic and occultism, vocal pedagogy
  • E-mail: helengrey@list.ru

NEZHMETDINOVA Farida Tansykovna (Russia, Kazan)

  • Academic degrees: Ph.D. (Philosophy) (1987)
  • Education: Post-graduate studies at Kazan State University (1986)
  • Kazan State University, School of Philosophy (1981)
  • Current employment, position: Kazan State Agrarian University, Chair of Department of Philosophy and Law, The member of Local ethical Committee, member of Republic ethical Committee
  • E-mail: nadgmi@mail.ru

OZHIGANOVA Anna Alexandrovna (Russia, Moscow)

  • Academic degrees: Ph.D. in Anthropology
  • Current employment, position: Researcher IEA RAS
  • Academic interests: new religion movements, modern utopias, anthropology of community, alternative communities, alternative medical practices, cultural aspects of health and illness, culture of childhood
  • E-mail: аnna-ozhiganova@yandex.ru

PITERSKAYA Elena Sergeevna (Russia, Moscow)

  • Academic degrees: Ph.D. in History
  • Current employment, position: independent researcher
  • Academic interests: Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Consciousness, History and Anthropology of Alaskan Natives, Colonization of Alaska and American North West Coast
  • E-mail: elenasp2003@mail.ru

PROPISNOVA Elena Olegovna (Russia, Moscow)

  • Education: Tomsk State University, Department of History Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), Master’s degree programme
  • Current employment, position: Post-graduate student at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS, Group of Medical Anthropology
  • E-mail: propisnova@yahoo.com

SERGEEVA Nadia Valerievna (Russia, Volgograd)

  • Academic degrees: Sc.D. (Philosophy)
  • Current employment, position: Scientific Secretary of the Regional Independent Ethics Committee (RNEK) Volgograd region, assistant professor of philosophy, bioethics and law, Volgograd State Medical University
  • Academic interests: bioethics
  • E-mail: sergeeva_nadiya@list.ru

ILCE Jim (USA, Flagstaff (Arizona))

  • Academic degrees: M.A. in Asian Studies (1983), Ph.D. in Anthropology (1994)
  • Current employment, position: Professor of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University; Editor, Wiley-Blackwell book series, Studies in Discourse and Culture
  • Academic interests: The ethnography of communication; ethnopoetics, language ideologies; semiotics; speech-in-interaction, embodiment, phenomenology; the intersection of linguistic and medical anthropology, medical and ethnopsychiatric discourse, doctor-patient communication; the self, emotion; psychoneuroimmunology; modernity, globalization, and metaculture; religion and healing; New Age; psychologization and the spread of “therapy culture”; Finland, Finnish language and culture; South Asia
  • E-mail: wilce@nau.edu; jim.wilce@gmail.com

YANEVA-BALABANSKA Ilyana (Bulgaria, Sofia)

  • Academic degrees, membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences: Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor
  • Current employment, position: National Center for Public Health and Analysis of the Ministry of Health of Bulgaria