The Commission of Social and Human Sciences
in Health of Abrasco
and the Congresses of the area
Approximately three decades
ago, the introduction of the Public Health in Brazil was only possible
because of the grouping of different areas around the same theme.
The contribution of the Social and Human Sciences (SHS) dates from
this very first moment and became an essential and structuring part
of this field along these years. The history of public practices
and policies and in general and specially in health; the social
and anthropological dimensions of the health-illness process and
health care practices; the critic philosophic concepts and presumptions;
the analysis of police making; the economic dimensions of health
care (from which is testimony the expression “industrial-medical
complex”) were and are fundamental and foundering dimensions
of Public Health. This area was born and grew up in Brazil reading
Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Canguilhem, Lévi-Strauss Foucault
and Bourdieu among many others.
Following the relevancy of SHS to the Public Health, Abrasco has
been promoting various initiatives to the development of the field
since its foundation. During the 80’s, important efforts were
done to discuss, in more restricted forums, the social sciences
in health education. After that, in the 90’s, different initiatives
bringing together social science in health specialists that favored
the discussions, printed a better visibility of this field and also
permitted to diagnostic a series of questions (education, research
and services supplying) that have been the matter of social scientists
concerns.
This process speeded up when, in September 1993, the 1st Meeting
of Social Sciences in Health took place in Belo Horizonte - MG,
followed by the Workshop on Social Sciences in Health, in April
1995 in Rio de Janeiro - RJ; the 1st Brazilian Congress of Social
Sciences in Health, in November of the same year in Curitiba –
PR and, the 2nd Brazilian Congress of Social Sciences in Health
in December 1999 in São Paulo - SP. After that, there was
a second Workshop on Social Sciences in Health in Rio de Janeiro
- RJ in December 2002, followed by a national seminar also in Rio
de Janeiro in 2003, that pointed out a fundamental inflection at
the trajectory of the Commission, expressed by the explicit incorporation
of the Human Sciences. The 2005 Congress, that happened in Florianópolis
– SC, was already named 3rd Brazilian Congress of Social and
Human Sciences in Health. There were about 1,800 participants and
2,000 papers presented, which are an expression of vitality and
growth of this area.
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