Historicidade e olhares sobre o processo saúde-doença: uma nova percepção

Abstract

During the course of the societies' history, the greatest scourges linked to health surveillance resulted from intrinsic factors to the construction of communities, which shows an intimate relationship between health and environmental conditions. The look of biomedicine on human health focus on corrective solutions over preventive ones, because it follows the Cartesian thought with the traditional diagnosis and prophylaxis, conditioned by the commercialization of scientific knowledge. With the purpose of fostering a critical reflection about the health-disease process, this study defends the need of a paradigm shift concerning biomedicine, defending a break on the hegemony and monopoly of the traditional medicine to mitigate prejudices and allow different therapeutic to the sick.