Complexity of Collective Health Field: Knowledge and Practice Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, and Transdisciplinarity -- A Paradigmatic Trajectory Socio-Historical Analysis

This article deals with the increasing complexity of the field presently known as Collective Health, socially & historically constructed along two centuries (beginning of the XIXth, & all along the XXth) in terms of knowledge & practices. This complexity, evident in the multidisciplinary...

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Veröffentlicht in:Saúde e sociedade 2009-04, Vol.18 (2), p.304-311
1. Verfasser: Luz, Madel T
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Zusammenfassung:This article deals with the increasing complexity of the field presently known as Collective Health, socially & historically constructed along two centuries (beginning of the XIXth, & all along the XXth) in terms of knowledge & practices. This complexity, evident in the multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary paradigms that coexist in the field, may be expressed at two levels: the level of its composing disciplines, which includes human, biological, medical & environmental disciplines, & the level of production & expression of knowledge, which includes the scientific paradigm & the ethical & practical paradigm of efficacy, both common to medicines (preventive & social medicine) & health policies. It also tries to demonstrate that the social & historical evolution of Collective Health as a scientific & practical field seems to indicate an irreversible change in the direction of complexity, in terms of knowledge, of intervention, & of expression of the different disciplines that are nowadays part of the field. To reduce this complexity to one single model in terms of disciplines or of styles of production of knowledge means to reduce the whole field to only one single dimension & to limit it at both mentioned levels, what is a very bad solution. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0104-1290
DOI:10.1590/S0104-12902009000200013