employee from 01.01.2002 until now
Federal State Budgetary Military Educational Institution of Higher Education "Kirov Military Medical Academy" of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Department of Forensic Medicine and Medical Law, Professor)
employee from 01.01.2002 to 01.01.2026
Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
UDC 343.985
The article is devoted to the study of the current state and place of dermatoglyphics among other disciplines, identifying the main trends in its development. The research material was information on the publication activity and content of publications on dermatoglyphics, osteology, odontology, somatology and fingerprinting. Methods: chronological, comparative-historical, aspect-based. It is shown that dermatoglyphics is an anthropological discipline. Due to the specific nature of its main research object (the relief of the scallop skin, formed under the influence of hereditary, embryonic and postnatal factors of the internal and external environment), dermatoglyphics has close links with a very wide range of disciplines – anthropological (osteology, odontology, somatology), medical (anatomy, histology, embryology, medical genetics, psychiatry), forensic (fingerprinting). The high integrative ability of dermatoglyphics allows it to act as a unique "bridge of knowledge" between different disciplines. As one of the private research methods, dermatoglyphics finds application in a wide variety of fields of science and practice, including forensic medicine and criminology, where it gradually takes its unique and worthy place, becoming a routine research method in the arsenal of a modern expert.
anthropology, fingerprinting, dermatoglyphics, diagnosis of personality traits, identification of personality, blood relationship, personality traits, personality traits, forensic anthropology
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