From everyday knowledge to scientific knowledge of the disease in populations. Difficulties and challenges of epidemiology as a scientific discipline

The aim of this paper is to discuss, from the proposal of Michel Foucault threshold of knowledge, the epistemological path of epidemiology since the 18th century, when emerged a discursive practice on health and illness of populations in the modern states until today established as a scientific disc...

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Autores principales: Universidad de Antioquia, Arias-Valencia, Samuel Andrés
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Publicado: Human and Economic Sciences Faculty, National University of Colombia (Medellín) 2017
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Acceso en línea:http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/hisysoc/article/view/59163
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-020&d=article59163oai
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Sumario:The aim of this paper is to discuss, from the proposal of Michel Foucault threshold of knowledge, the epistemological path of epidemiology since the 18th century, when emerged a discursive practice on health and illness of populations in the modern states until today established as a scientific discipline with high instrumental and technical refinement framed in scientific positivism and with little theoretical reflection about its purpose: health, disease and population. Consequently, it is proposed the urgency of an epistemological and methodological opening of epidemiology that allows you to understand the complexity of the health-disease-care to populations beyond the narrow biomedical paradigm.