Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - BarcelonaAnthropology
Module: Medicina social, habilidades de comunicación e iniciación a la investigación
Matter: Antropología
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Head instructor
Dr. Francesc Xavier ESCRIBANO - xescriba@uic.es
Office hours
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
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.
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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.
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.
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.