Biopolítica e produção de saúde: Um outro humanismo?

Abstract

This paper seeks to pose questions regarding initiatives for constructing the desired advances towards new healthcare practices. Innovations in actions often have the effect that such actions, which are intended to be innovative, remain hostage to prejudgement. When changes in practices, and particularly in healthcare practices, are brought into ordinary use, they may only change appearances while maintaining the transmission of implicit commands that are expressed in uptake that places life at the service of the healthcare authorities. This paper indicates some trends that may help to outline a frame within which the problem of implementation of public healthcare policies from the point of view of humanization can be reconciled. Starting from the topics of biopolitics, healthcare production and other types of humanism, the question posed concerns the extent to which healthcare that is more humanized might inversely mask an affront regarding the more noble forces of life.