REVIEW ON THE BOOK BY RADIK KHAYRULLIN «ON THEORETICAL CONCEPTS OF MODERN HUMAN ANATOMY»

The monograph by Radik Khayrullin «On the theoretical concepts of modern human anatomy» is devoted to an analytical review of the tasks and controversial issues in the field of human anatomy that are relevant for the current stage of development of biomedical science and is presented in six chapters, the author’s preface and conclusion with the main results of the issues under consideration. In the preface to the book, the author draws attention to the insufficient development of the theoretical foundations of human anatomy; in the course of its development, this science often used the tools and concepts of related disciplines, trying to adapt them to its tasks. The first chapter «On the problem of searching for meanings and theories in anatomy and medicine» presents an analytical review, which outlines a list of topical issues about the place of modern anatomy in the system of medical and biological sciences, about the ways of its development. In the second chapter, the author, critically analyzing the well-known scientific work of Peter Lesgaft «Basis of Theoretical Anatomy» (1892), discusses the tasks of modern anatomy, the limitations of the functional principle of analysis in human anatomy, and the importance of unity in the use of anatomical terms. The third chapter of the book is devoted to the author's analysis of little-known theoretical works of Russian morphologists who developed comparative anatomy concepts. The fourth chapter, «On the methodological basis and concepts of Soviet medical anatomy», is devoted to the Soviet period of development of theoretical concepts of anatomy. The fifth chapter, «Some lessons of the history of the Russian anatomical professional community», is devoted to the history of the emergence, development and current state of the professional organization of Russian anatomists. In the sixth chapter, «Human anatomy as a science today - the applied brilliance and fundamental poverty of modern biomedicine», the author states that in modern anatomy, as in other sciences on the structural organization of living beings, there is no adequately developed theoretical basis that would contribute to its effective and dynamic development. The criteria of similarity and difference between two separate scientific disciplines – human anatomy and physical anthropology – are considered and analyzed in detail. At the theoretical level, human anatomy and physical anthropology are united by the conceptual basis of general principles of organization and functioning of the human organism. The book will be useful not only for professionals, students and postgraduates involved in human anatomy, physical anthropology and morphology, but also for historians of science, as well as a wide range of readers for whom the issues of knowledge development and the formation of individual sections of the great science of the structure and shape of the human body are important.

1. Khayrullin RM. O teoreticheskikh kontseptakh sovremennoy anatomii cheloveka. S-Pb.: Izd-vo SPbGETU «LETI», 2024. - 204s. In Russian