Email this article The goals of sociology of medicine in studying technologies of “human enhancement”
- Authors: Sedova N.N1, Navrotskii B.A2, Priz E.V3
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Affiliations:
- The Volgogradskii medical research center
- The Journal “Sotciologiia goroda”
- The Rostovskii state medical university
- Issue: Vol 15, No 2 (2016)
- Pages: 87-90
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1728-2810/article/view/42695
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18821/1728-2810-2016-15-2-87-90
- ID: 42695
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Abstract
The technologies of “enhancement of human” are issue of discussion at large due to absence of clear-cut conception in society and professional community concerning related with risks for human individual and society. For the present, these technologies just began to be applied only in medicine. Therefore, namely medical professionals are this social group that is to be more informed in the area of “enhancement of human” and hence more adaptive to their application. The paradox of inconsistency of level of technologies and level of professionalism at their application includes high social risks to be foreseen and to be eliminated. To implement these task is possible with means of sociology of medicine.
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N. N Sedova
The Volgogradskii medical research center
Email: nnsw18@yandex.ru
doctor of philosophical sciences, doctor of legal sciences, professor, head of the department of ethical, legal and sociological expertise Volgograd, Russia
B. A Navrotskii
The Journal “Sotciologiia goroda”Volgograd, Russia
E. V Priz
The Rostovskii state medical universityRostov, Russia
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