Jose Siles González
University of Alicante, Spain
Biography
José Siles-González has his expertise in nursing history and culture care. The Structural Dialectic Model of Care SDMC) has its origin in a mid-1990s doctoral thesis entitled “Family structure and social role of women in Alicante, 1868-1936”, which employed this model for the first time. We are part of a research group at the University of Alicante: "Culture of Care” (http://web.ua.es/es/cultura-cuidados/). SDMC presents an integrated approach to socio-cultural and biological systems from nursing perspective. The SDMC has been used in cultural history research and in cultural studies of care. A cross-disciplinary approach was adopted in the construction of this model, which among other things is based on structuralist and functionalist premises. From structuralism, the model incorporates the contributions of Lévi-Strauss.