CONTATORE, Octávio Augusto; MALFITANO, Ana Paula Serrata e BARROS, Nelson Filice de. Health care: ontology, hermeneutics and teleology. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. In press. . Epub 20-Mar-2017. ISSN 1807-5762. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-57622016.0616.
The health care is a growing research field and has been addressed through new referential frameworks. Although it is an attribute essential to human survival, it did not receive enough analysis to build a sociology of care. The purpose of this essay is to map the production of knowledge about care, in order to develop a theoretical reflection on the subject. The literature shows an ontology of biomedical care, a hermeneutics of different approaches to care and the teleological challenge of caring in the contemporaneity. As conclusion, the technical-scientific basis of care gives few answers to the real demands of the people, demonstrating the need for a “social + logic” emancipatory approach of the care.
Palavras-chave : Health care; Sociology; Biomedicine.
