Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Anthropology

Anthropology
6
7606
1
Second semester
FB
Medicina social, habilidades de comunicación e iniciación a la investigación
Antropología
Main language of instruction: Spanish

Teaching staff


Dr. ESCRIBANO LÓPEZ, Francesc Xavier - xescriba@uic.es

Teachers will attend to the students at an agreed time arranged by e-mail.

Dr. Xavier Escribano: xescriba@uic.es

Dra. Andrea Rodríguez-Prat: arodriguezp@uic.es

Dr. Abel Miro: amiro@uic.es


Introduction

In the event that the health authorities announce a new period of confinement due to the evolution of the health crisis caused by COVID-19, the teaching staff will promptly communicate how this may effect the teaching methodologies and activities as well as the assessment.


Given the increasing specialization of medicine, health professionals need to have the resources and skills to avoid fragmentary or partial views of the patient. To achieve this goal, the subject of Anthropology offers students a comprehensive and coherent development of the idea of the human being that facilitates the recognition of the plurality of their dimensions (physical, mental, social and spiritual) and an appropriate way to integrate them.

Concepts such as health, illness, pain or suffering require, to be properly understood, a global view of the human being which must take into account its vulnerability and its dignity. The subject of Anthropology will give students a profound and rigorous reflection on the nature of the human being, its possibilities and limits, a reflection that the practice of a health profession inevitably requires.

Finally, the subject of Anthropology will provide the students with a better understanding of the necessary coordination between the technical and the human dimension of their profession. The understanding of such coordination will serve to overcome the limitations of a purely technical response to disease and illness and will also contribute to improving the humanistic aspects of the professional skills of the students, meeting in this way society’s demands.

Pre-course requirements

None

Objectives

To analyze critically and relexively the different interpretations of human being that are dominant in our socio-cultural system.

To obtain a global vision of the human person, as a complex and pluridimensional reality.

To provide conceptual tools to analyze and to evaluate the different issues relating to human existence in the contemporary world, emphazising especially those aspects relevant to health practitioners.

Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme

1. To understand the important implications of social and cultural diversity for a better comprehension of illness and health.

2. To discover the meaning and the value of the fundamental principle of the dignitiy of the human person in any situation of vulnerability and dependence.

3. To examine closely the physical, social, cultural and espiritual experience of health and illness.

  • 08 - Recognize the basis of normal human behavior and its disorders.
  • 34 - Ability for critical thinking, creativity and constructive skeptisim with a focus on research within professional practice.
  • 35 - Understand the importance and limitations of scientific thinking in the study, prevention and treatment of disease.
  • CB-1 - To have acquired advanced knowledge and demonstrated, within the context of highly specialised scientific and technological research, detailed comprehension based on theoretical and practical aspects and a working methodology from one or more fields of study.
  • CB-3 - To know how to evaluate and select the appropriate scientific theories and precise methodologies required by their field of study to make judgements based on incomplete or limited information. Where necessary and appropriate, this includes a reflection on the ethical and social responsibility linked to the solution suggested in each case.
  • CTS-3 - To promote and ensure respect for human rights and the principles of universal accessibility, equality, non-discrimination as well as the values of democracy and a culture of peace.

Learning outcomes of the subject

1. To be able to identify and criticize any fragmented vision of human being.

2. To be able to apply the principle of human dignity to the different situations related to ther professional practice.

3. To have acquired a global and comprehensive understanding of health and illness.

4. To have acquired a broad range of concepts of the structure of human being especially related to corporeality, afectivity, freedom, sociability and vulnerability.

Syllabus


  1. What is Anthropology?
  2. The diversity of anthropological knowledge.
  3. The role of anthropological knowledge in Health Science

  1. The animal who interprets himself.
  2. The problem of anthropological reductionism.

  1. The physical interior and the vital interior.
  2. The classical notion of soul (psyche).
  3. Levels or degrees of life.
  4. The distinguishing features of the human being.

  1. The naked animal. The unspecific functionality of human being.
  2. The articulation between Nature and Culture: hand and intelligence.
  3. The process of learning and the plurality of cultures.
  4. The levels of self-realization of living beings: organic-natural, socio-cultural, personal-spiritual.

  1. A brief history of the perception of the body.
  2. The experience of embodiment.
  3. Phenomenology of the senses.
  4. The paradigm of the lived body and disease.

  1. The basic animal instincts.
  2. The trend of human dynamics.
  3. Nature, Culture and Sexuality
  4. Emotions from an ethical perspective.

  1. The symbolic animal: from voice to word
  2. Specific features of human language.
  3. Functions of language.
  4. Emotions from an ethical perspective.

  1. Voluntary and involuntary. Desire and choice.
  2. Free realization of human person.
  3. Kinds of freedom: Physical, psychological, moral and political
  4. The biographical dimension of personal existence.

  1. The social dimension of the human person.
  2. Intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships.
  3. The relationship with nature: the technological civilization.
  4. The biographical dimension of personal existence.

  1. A history of the recognition of the dignity of the person.
  2. The foundation of dignity.
  3. Naturalism and Personalism: the discussion about the notion of person in the context of contemporary bioethics.
  4. The special dignity of the patient.

  1. Suffering and conscious life.
  2. Levels of pain or suffering: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
  3. Philosophical understanding of suffering. Attitudes regarding pain.
  4. Suffering and the necessity of meaning.
  5. The Christian meaning of suffering.

  1. Meaning and interpretation of disease throughout history.
  2. Illness as an existential crisis.
  3. Illness: autonomy and dependence.
  4. Social attitudes regarding illness.

  1. Human consciousness of death.
  2. Cultural and personal modulation of death: attitudes towards death.
  3. The concelament of death in our society.
  4. The question of survival after death.

Teaching and learning activities

In blended



Theoretical (on line) and practical classes (class attendance).

Evaluation systems and criteria

In blended



- Midterm Exam: 20%

- Final Exam: 40%

- Practical Part: 40%


Both the final exam and the practical part of the subject must be passed so that they make average with the rest of the values

 

Bibliography and resources

  MANUALES BÁSICOS DE CONSULTA
- Amengual, G., Antropología Filosófica, BAC, Madrid, 2007.
- Torralba i Roselló, F., Antropología del cuidar, Fundación Mapfre Medicina, Barcelona, 1998.
- Vicente Arregui, J. y Choza, J., Filosofía del hombre. Una antropología de la intimidad, ICF-UNAV, Rialp, Madrid, 1995.
- Yepes Stork, R., Fundamentos de antropología, Eunsa, Pamplona, 1997.

OBRAS GENERALES
- Anrubia, E. (ed.), La fragilidad de los hombres. La enfermedad, la filosofía y la muerte, Eds. Cristiandad, Madrid, 2008.
- Anrubia, E. (ed.), Filosofías del dolor y la muerte, Ed. Comares, Granada, 2007.
- Escribano, X. (ed.), Territoris humans de la salut. Societat, cultura i valors en el món sanitari, Ed. Dux, Barcelona, 2008.
- Roqué, M. V. (ed.), El sentido del vivir en el morir, Thomson-Reuters Aranzadi, Pamplona, 2013
 
BIBLIOGRAFÍA GENERAL
-  Alsina, J., Los orígenes helénicos de la medicina occidental,  Barcelona: Labor, 1992.
-  Andorno, R., Bioética y dignidad de la persona, Tecnos, Madrid, 1998.
- Buber, M., ¿Qué es el hombre?, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Madrid, 1986.
- Choza, J., Humanismo de la ancianidad; en Los otros humanismos, Pamplona: Eunsa, 1994.
- Gadamer, H. G., El estado oculto de la salud, Gedisa, Barcelona, 2001.
- Gehlen, A., El hombre. Su naturaleza y su lugar en el mundo, Sígueme, Salamanca, 1987.
- González García, M. (comp.), Filosofía y dolor; Madrid: Tecnos, 2006.
- Hennezel, Marie de, La mort íntima, Columna, Barcelona, 2000.
- Jaspers, K., La práctica médica en la era tecnológica; Barcelona: Gedisa, 2003.
- Jonas, H., Técnica, medicina y ética, Paidós, Barcelona, 1997.
- Jünger, E., Sobre el dolor, Tusquets, Barcelona, 2003.
- Laín-Entralgo, Pedro, La relación médico-enfermo, Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1964.
- Laín-Entralgo, P., El arte de la curación por la palabra en la antigüedad clásica, Barcelona: Anthropos
- Landsberg, P. L., Ensayo sobre la experiencia de la muerte, Ed. Caparrós, Madrid, 1995.
- Ortega y Gasset, J., Meditación de la técnica y otros ensayos; Madrid: Alianza, 2000
- Pellegrino, E. D. i Thomasma, D.A., A philosophical basis of Medical Practice. Toward a Philosophy and Ethic of the Healing Professions, New York, Oxford University Press, 1981.
- Nussbaum, La terapia del deseo, Paidós, Barcelona, 2003.
- Roqué, Mª. V., Médico y paciente. El lado humano de la medicina, Ed. Dux, Barcelona, 2007.
- Russo, G., Il medico. Identità e ruoli nella società di oggi, Edizioni Internazionali, Roma, 2004
- Scheler, M., Muerte y supervivencia, Ed. Encuentro, Madrid, 2001.
- Scheler, M., El puesto del hombre en el cosmos, Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1936.
- Torralba, F., Filosofía de la Medicina, Institut Borja de Bioètica. Fundación Mapfre Medicina, Madrid, 2001.
- Vicente Arregui, J., El horror de morir; Barcelona, Tibidabo, 1992.

TÍTULOS DE INTERÉS
- Bauby, J.-D., La escafandra y la mariposa, Ed. Planeta, Barcelona, 2008.
- Pérez de Laborda, M. et alia, ¿Quiénes somos? Cuestiones en torno al ser humano. Ed. Eunsa, Pamplona, 2018.
- Sacks, O., L'home que va confondre la seva dona amb un barret, Ed. Proa, Barcelona, 2001.
- Szczeklik, A., Catarsis, Sobre el poder curativo de la naturaleza y el arte, Acantilado, Barcelona, 2010.
- Szczeklik, A., Core. Sobre enfermos, enfermedades y la búsqueda del alma de la medicina, Acantilado, Barcelona, 2012.

 

Evaluation period

E: exam date | R: revision date | 1: first session | 2: second session:
  • E1 08/06/2021 09:00h
  • E2 12/07/2021 09:00h

Teaching and learning material


Print version