В самой Японии еще недавно было распространено мнение о том, что японцам не хватает силы воображения, в частности творческого. Мнение основывалось на том, что японцы традиционно и неуклонно сле-довали всевозможным правилам и канонам во всех областях жизни и творчества. Строгая регламентация художественных приемов привела к появлению множества эпигонских произведений. В то же время обуслов-ленные особенностями миропонимания чрезвычайная интенсивность ас-социативного мышления и включенность произвольного воображения не только определили своеобразие японского искусства и литературы, но и вносили – и вносят по сей день – элементы творчества в повседневную жизнь японцев. Most of the Japanese themselves has recently believed that their imagination and creativity was insufficiently developed. The belief was based on the fact that the Japanese had traditionally and steadily followed multiple rules and canons in all spheres of their life and creative work. Strict regulation in artistic methods entailed the emergence of a great deal of imitative production. Meanwhile, in fact extraordinarily intensive associative thinking and involvement of arbitrary imagination caused by the peculiar worldview have determined the specificity of Japanese art and literature and introduced creative elements in Japanese’s everyday life.

In this article we discuss the relation between dermato-venereology and art on examples of some European and Russian paintings from Saratov State Art Museum named after A.N. Radishev. Features of artistic way of depiction cutaneous disorders in different historical periods are presented. Acquaintance with similar works of «artistic diagnostics» may be used in studying process and has cognitive, educational and social value.
Utz S.R., Sherstneva V.N., Pashkova L.V., Galkina E.M., Persashvili M.A. Skin and venereal diseases in some artworks of Saratov State Art Museum named after A. N. Radishev // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2014, pp. 568-574

Cultural conditions, in vitro gametes and early embryos manipulating can be followed by the disorders of genomic imprinting — epigenetic mechanism providing differential expression of certain genes depending on their parental origin during mammalian embryogenesis. Significant number of genetic diseases such as Angelman, Prader—Willi, Beckwith—Wiedemann syndromes, Wilms’ tumor, hepatoblastoma, rhabdomiosarcoma, etc. are associated with genomic imprinting disorders. The factors, which can potentially cause the development of genomic imprinting diseases after assisted reproduction are considered in the review.
Isaev D.A., Zaeva V.V., Bolt A.I., Volodina O.Iu. ART and genomic imprinting diseases (a review). Problemy Reproduktsii. 2005. №2. P. 14-18. (Russian)