Scientific production in medical rationalities and health practices

Abstract

With a history of two decades, the analysis category Medical Rationality holds today a signifi¬cant scientific output in the field of Public Health, with epistemological and socio-historical approaches. This paper is an analytic report that production. Based on a critical review of the literature, we present the category Medical Rationality and the context of its formulation, a quantitative description of the studies produced by the research group “Health Rationalities: Medical Complex Systems and Integrative and Complementary Practices’, as well as the main developments and contributions of these studies in the academic and political-institutional areas. It is understood that the category Medical Rationality lets revisit distinct knowledge and practices in health, in order to overcome the hegemonic understanding of biological rationality, and affirm the solidarity exchange between different cultural systems in health, to their complementarity.