Aspirantskiy Vestnik PovolzhiyaAspirantskiy Vestnik Povolzhiya2072-23542410-3764Samara State Medical University2440010.17816/2072-2354.2015.0.3-4.155-157Research ArticleBiomedicine as a cultural system: anthropological characteristics of innovation theoryMikhelD V-15062015153-415515711032020Copyright © 2015, Mikhel D.V.2015The article examines biomedicine from the anthropological point of view. Biomedicine is characterized as a system with such features as monotheism, universal moral order, materialism, the idea of suffering as a disease, treatment without healing.biomedicineanthropologyWestern cultureprofessional communityбиомедицинаантропологиязападная культурапрофессиональное сообщество