PMID: 11625236Jan 1, 1997Paper

Georges Canguilhem and the epistemological status of the concept of health

História, ciências, saúde--Manguinhos
S Caponi

Abstract

Taking as a point of departure Canguilhem's view on the epistemological status of the concept of health, the article examines current begemonic concepts which see health as a question of balance and adjustment to the environment-including herein the conceptualization posed by the World Health Organization and the broad definition laid out during the 8th Health Conference. The basic goal of this examination is to show that what is defined in discursive statements constitutes an ongoing interaction with the metadiscursive statements more closely related to the world of institutions and institutional action. It is therefore argued that the adoption of a particular notion of health implies the selection of a particular direction in health care policies as well as the application of a particular set of intervention strategies regarding the lives and bodies of subjects.

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