Anthropology of Health
Module: Humanities and Arts Module
Matter: Anthropology
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Head instructor
Dr. Ignacio MACPHERSON - imacpherson@uic.es
Office hours
- Make an appointment via e-mail to Professor
Ignacio Macpherson: imacpherson@uic.es
Mauricio Pacheco: mpacheco@uic.es
Technological advances have created new scenarios for all professionals in the health sciences and have raised great hopes of concrete improvements to the lives and future of mankind. However, it is also common for both clinical practice and scientific research or in management that problems and questions of ethical and anthropological nature arise and unambiguously demonstrate the need for a constant relationship and integration between technical and ethical reasons, so that the acquisition of new knowledge is conducted so to achieve and do the best for the man who is at his/her greatest vulnerability. For prepared professional, technical and scientific training is not enough to practice nursing correctly but also includes an anthropological and ethical dimension.
The course of "Medical Anthropology" aims to reflect on the value of human life, the respect it deserves and its relationship to good health. Based on the principles that should inspire Nursing conduct, in order to know how to integrate the actions that arise in daily clinical practice, knowing the rights of the person and the main health regulations governing professional skills is necessary.
Training in "Medical Anthropology" aims to provide students in Nursing knowledge and specific training that will train and help, not only to make the best decisions in situations that are considered limited, but also to know how to act in various situations that arise in daily clinical practice.
Have knowledge of Philosophical Anthropology
At the end of the course of "Medical Anthropology" students will be able to:
I. FUNDAMENTAL OF ETHICS
The rational foundation of ethics
The moral phenomenon
Freedom and autonomy
Good and dignity
Ethical rationality and moral judgments
Human conscience
Modalities of conscience
Principles to follow one's conscience.
Human action
Underlying principles of human acts
The lesser evil
Double effect
Cooperation to evil
The virtues and values
Nature and acquisition of virtue.
The fundamental virtues
Ethics of social life
Physical integrity and violence
Racial / sexual discrimination
Respect for privacy
Information-communication ethics
Justice in professional relationships
Justice in the distribution of resources
II. ETHICS AND LEGISLATION
The law and the rights
The moral Law. Characteristics and contents
Distinction morality-legality
Human rights
Legislation of clinical practice
Principles of action
Medical records
Informed Consent (CI)
Professional secrecy
Legal responsibility
Judicial accountability and contracts
Conscientious objection
Assistance Ethics Committees
Limits in procedures
Ethical-deontological codes
III. ETHICAL APPLIED
Methodological principles of ethical decisions
Ethical components of human acts
Analysis of the moral decision of the health professional
Stages in the decision making process
Origin and development of Bioethics
Definition of Bioethics
Brief historical panorama
Founding models in Bioethics
Application of models in case studies
Beginning of human life
Human sexuality
Fertility and sterilization
Prenatal diagnosis and abortion
Current legal situation
Assisted reproduction
Stem cells and embryonic selection
Embryo Experimentation
Genetic manipulation
Ethics of fragile life
Information to patients and their rights
The care and attention to at-risk patients
Health professional-patient relationship
Term of human life
Suffering and Palliative Care
Limitation of therapeutic effort
Sedation and Dysnasia
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Research Ethics
Experimentation with humans
Experimentation with animals
Interventions for human improvement
Fraud in investigation and publication
The conflict of interest
Clinical Research Ethics Committees
HANDBOOKS
POLAINO, A., Manual de Bioética General, Rialp, 2000.
CICCONE, L.; Bioética. Historia.Principios. Cuestiones. Palabra, Madrid, 2005.
MANERO, E; TOMAS, G Mª, Diccionario de Bioética para estudiantes, Formación Alcalá, S.L., 2008.
SGRECCIA, E., Manual de Bioetica I: Fundamentos y Ética Biomédica, BAC, 2010.
SIMON, C., Diccionario de Bioética, Montecarmelo, 2006
REFERENCE:
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INTERNET
- Bioethicsline www.bioethics.Georgetown.edu/bioline.htm
- Euroethics www.gwdg.de/-uelsner/entrez/.fcgi
- Asociación Médica Mundial www.wma.net
- Canadian Bioethics Society: www.bioethics.ca/english
- Asociación Europea de Centros de Ética Médica: www.kuleuven.ac.be/cbmer/eacmeherstel.htm
- European Bioethical Research: www.bioethics.org.uk
- Asociación Española de Bioética y Ética médica: www.aebioetica.org
- Bioética y Derecho. Universidad de Barcelona: www.Ub.es/fildt/bioetica.htm
- Centro de Documentación de Bioética del departamento de Humanidades Biomédicas: www.unav.es/cdb
-Observatorio de Bioética de Valencia: www.observatoriobioetica.com
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