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Filosofia e saúde: métodos genealógico e filosófico-conceitual

2004; Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz; Volume: 20; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0102-311x2004000400009

1678-4464

André Martins,

Foucault, Power, and Ethics

After a brief review of the relations between philosophy and health, this paper proposes two complementary philosophical methods to be used by Public Health: the philosophical genealogy method and the philosophical-conceptual method. The first method (deconstructive) allows us to denaturalize ideas to which a truth value has customarily been ascribed. The second (constructive) promotes new concepts whose value does not depend on the notion of truth. Both serve the purpose of reflection on concepts used by health policy and practice.