The connotation of person in chronicity situations

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to describe as conceived the person from the point of view of current anthropological of personalism enabling understand its anchorage in nursing care in chronic situations.

Therefore, the Chronicity and Welfare Research Group of the Escuela Nacional de Enfermería y Obstetricia rescues the concept person and raises the need to overcome selfishness individualistic, positivist determinism and totalitarianism common in health services to take a critical attitude address the current social and political situations that disrupt essential values such as dignity or interpersonal relationships.

Moreover, current technological development, globalization and the changing values, the person is considered an object more than the gear making complex social care practice and nursing research. Interesting thing about to consider the person from the current of personalism is see from St. Thomas Aquinas until twentieth century, his approach focuses on the intrinsic value of the human person for nurses to consider in this perspective more so if it has a chronic disease.

The work is produced in three parts. A brief introduction which attempts to clarify some aspects of context, a second part where is reviewed the positions of several philosophers about the concept person and concludes that in a relationship of care, the person is most importantly provided be heeded their nature human, spiritual, free, able to build his universe; this is also an invitation to renew or in the best of cases, to reflect the concep of person in the current development of nurse ́s investigation.