ALTERNATIVIDADES EM SAÚDE HUMANA E A GEOGRAFIA DA SAÚDE

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Mariana Andreotti
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Mendonça, Francisco
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Hygeia (Uberlândia)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/hygeia/article/view/56781
• topic: Alternatividades em saúde; Medicina Alternativa; Práticas Alternativas; Geografia da Saúde

The history that underlies human health care and practices is marked by a mix of magical practices/theories and scientific experiments, and has evidenced, since antiquity, empirical principles. The medicine, one of these practices, was limited to members of the upper classes and those with power as well as treatments. However, another rationality was operationalized by the lower classes. They were actors, holders of knowledge and alternative practices, to the official model, who contributed by providing care to populations without access to official medicine. Given the exposed, the work aims to discuss two points: 1. In our society there are different conceptions for health, depending on medical rationality, the place and the subject that holds them, causing the impoverishment of diagnoses and treatments for full health. Thus, the objective is to investigate: the postmodern scientific rationality and the conception of the biomedical model of health; and the model of alternativities on health. 2. The discussion of alternativities is relevant to the area of ​​Geography of Health, which can assist in legitimizing subjects and discussing complex medical systems and traditional and complementary therapies. Thereat, an analysis of the state of the art of perspectives on health alternatives will be carried out from the articles of the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Health Geography - Hygeia, since its first publication in 2005, until June 2020. The objective is to understand which are the discussions and theoretical/methodological aspects in vogue, and the place of alternativities throughout the 15 years. As considerations, it is revealed the need to discuss alternativities within Geography of Health, fundamental to the legitimation of practices and subjects allocated within the, unofficial, alternatives to health, as well as for the construction of another epistemology of health.