Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

General Anthropology

• code 07885
• course 1
• term Semester 1
• type FB
• credits 6

Module: Humanities and Arts Module

Matter: Anthropology

Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: Spanish

Head instructor

Dra. Maria Victoria ROQUÉ - vroque@uic.es

Other instructors

Dr. Josep CORCÓ - jcorco@uic.es

Office hours

• Students may contact teachers by appointment through e-mail
  

vroque@uic.es

jcorco@uic.es

imorales@uic.es

 Update Date Course Guide: June 2012

The growing technical scientific developments in the field of nursing they need to integrate professional knowledge with knowledge of the human sciences in order to avoid a fragmented view of the patient and overcome the limitations of the technological response to the dehumanizing disease. With the subject of Anthropology is intended that the student has the resources and skills that help to acquire a coherent and comprehensive idea of the human person and lead him to recognize the plurality of its existential dimensions: physical, psychological, social, spiritual and interlinked appropriately.

The concepts of health, illness, suffering and pain, must be understood in the light of a global vision of the person that takes into account, simultaneously, their vulnerability and their personal dignity.

Nursing practice raises issues that require having undertaken a reflection of the person, their possibilities and limitations in acting, anthropology issues addressed rigorously.

Not require

1. Consider critically and reflectively those interpretations of human beings that are prevalent in our socio-cultural system, taking into account its implications in the design of health and illness, pain and suffering.
2. Achieve a global vision of the human person as something complex and multidimensional, taking into account the level of philosophical reflection the many results achieved through the ongoing development of various sciences, humanities.
3. Provide conceptual tools to analyze and assess accurately the various problems posed by human existence in the contemporary world, focusing most particularly on those relating to the medical world, as is the case, for example, situations where demonstrates the dependence, vulnerability and the fragility of the human person.

• 24. G - Ability to work autonomously.
• 4. B - Understand the interactive behavior of the person according to their gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
• 11. E - Establish effective communication with patients, families, social groups and partners and promote health education.
• 19. B - Ability to make decisions based on critical thinking and reflective practice.
• 20. B - Multidisciplinary teamwork
• 21. B - Oral and written communication.
• 23. B - Ability to analyze and synthesize.
• 25. E - Knowledge of the field of study
• 7. B - Understand people without prejudice, considering their physical, psychological and social aspects, as autonomous and independent individuals, ensuring respect for their opinions, beliefs and values, ensuring their right to privacy through confidentiality and professional secrecy.

• Understand and incorporate into the professional language the basics of anthropological knowledge.
• Reason to know the basics of being and actions of man, so that they can responsibly assume the ethical implications of their healthcare practice.
•  Be responsible for tasks that are proposed.
• Assess the need to dignify relationships, with special emphasis on health care.
• Being able to take and understand the transcendent meaning of suffering and death.
• That in the context of a pluralistic society, to develop proposals address different anthropological attitude and open to dialogue, while critical and reflective enough.

UNIT 1: THE LIFE AND LIFE
1.1. The life sciences and the life
1.2. Life and its evolution
1.3. Nature, culture and person
1.4. Human rights

UNIT 2: ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
2.1. The origin and nature of philosophical knowledge
2.2. Scientific knowledge
2.3. Other models of knowing
2.4. Anthropological reductionism

UNIT 3: HUMAN CORPOREALITY
3.1. Body and embodiment
3.2. Monist or dualist conceptions of the human body
3.3. Phenomenology of the body

UNIT 4: THE EXISTENTIAL DYNAMICS OF THE HUMAN
4.1. The appetitive dynamics
4.2. The cognitive dynamics

UNIT 5: THE CONCEPT OF PERSON
5.1. Timeline of the term
5.2. The problem of naturalism
5.3. The human dignity

UNIT 6: HUMAN FREEDOM
6.1. The paradox of freedom. Notion
6.2. Areas of freedom
6.3. The life project of man

UNIT 7: MAN AS BEING RELATIONAL
7.1. The dialogic structure of the person
7.2. Relationships: eros and agape
7.3. Respect and tolerance for diversity

UNIT 8: THE QUESTION OF HUMAN SUFFERING
8.1. Pain as a vital phenomenon
8.2. The cause or origin of the pain. Types of pain
8.3. The essence of pain
8.4. The meaning of suffering
8.5. Pain as a mystery

UNIT 9: Death and infinity
9.1. Death as natural. Arguments and criticism of the naturalization of death
9.2. Human death: biological and biographical event
9.3. The desire to survive
9.4. Forms of evasion of contemporary man to death
9.5. Attitudes of man before death

The course is taught through theoretical sessions (lectures) and practical sessions. For the development of the group practical classes will be divided into two groups  of  the 5/& The content of the lectures will be the development of the main themes and concepts of the subject detailed in the syllabus. As regards the practical classes will be based mainly on the analysis of texts and audiovisual documents are intended to illustrate and deepen the concepts explained above. In time students will find in the "Materials" agenda guidelines and documents needed to prepare the practical sessions.

La evaluación consta de 3 partes:

• Examen parcial: 30%
• Examen final: 40%
• Seminario: 30%

Basic:

YEPES STORK, R., Fundamentos de antropología. Un ideal de excelencia humana, Eunsa, Pamplona, 1996.

ARREGU,V.; J. Y CHOZA J; Filosofía del hombre. Una antropología de la intimidad, Instituto  de Ciencias para la Familia, Rialp, Madrid, 1995.

LANGLOIS, IBAÑEZ., Introducción a la antropología, Pamplona, Eunsa, 1989.

SELLÉS,  JF., Antropología para inconformes, Instituto  de Ciencias para la Familia, Rialp, Madrid, 2006.

Consultation:

ANRUBIA, E. (ed.), La fragilidad de los hombres. La enfermedad, la filosofía y la muerte, Ed. Cristiandad, Madrid, 2008.
ARREGUI, Jorge V. El horror de morir. Tibidabo, Barcelona 1992.

ESCRIBANO, X. (ed.), Territoris humans de la salut. Societat, cultura i valors en el món sanitari, Ed. Dux, Barcelona, 2008.

BUBER, M., ¿Qué es el hombre?, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Madrid, 1986.
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.
GORDILLO, L., Aprender a vivir, aprender a morir, Fundcrea, Alicante, 1998.
HENNEZEL, MARIE de,  La muerte íntima, Plaza y Janes, Barcelona,

HILDEBRAND, D., El corazón. Un análisis de la afectividad humana y divina, Madrid, Palabra, 1997.

LEWIS, C. S. Los cuatro amores. Rialp, Mardid 1993.

                       El problema del dolor. Rialp, Madrid 1994.

E: exam date | R: revision date | 1: first session | 2: second session:

• E1 13/01/2011 10:00h
• R1 28/01/2011 10:00h
• E2 22/06/2011 10:00h A09
• R2 29/06/2011 09:00h A21