Sergei Shevchenko

Sergei Shevchenko is a philosopher of biology and medicine with a background in molecular biology. Until 2022, he was a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is now affiliated with the University of Belgrade. His PhD thesis (2019) focuses on the analysis of personalized medicine methods. His monograph Hope: Found and Invented (2022) parses the history of bacteriophage therapy in the early Soviet Union as a case study of dealing with evolving objects in social and political turbulence.

The project

Title: Biological Instability between (Epi)Genome and Environment

Selection of publications

Books Authored:

• Shevchenko, S (2020) Hope: Found and Invented. Moscow. Progress-Tradition. 336 pp. (in Russian). ISBN: 978-5-89826-586-1

Articles:

• Shevchenko, S., & Zhavoronkov, A. (2024). "The Role of Exceptionalism in the Evolution of Bioethical Regulation". Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 33(2), 185-197.
• Shevchenko, S. (2023). "Rudolf Virchow and Epidemiological Well-Being as an Anthropoecological Concept". Ètnografičeskoe obozrenie, (1), 158-174. (In Russian)
• Pravednikova, A. E., Shevchenko, S. Y. et al. (2020). "Association of uncoupling protein (Ucp) gene polymorphisms with cardiometabolic diseases". Molecular medicine, 26, 1-19.