Health Objects

Social health scientists working in developing countries can no longer spare thoughts on the construction of their own objects, for they are caught up in the complex sanitary evolutions (such as new pathologies or reactivation of the older ones, the role of technology, religion, private or collective care), the benefits of which until then have not been fully mobilized, and the stimulation of an interdisciplinary measure which most often is poorly defined, and as such, their efforts tend to be transformed. In order to avoid being passive viewers, social scientists need to engage in brainstorming exercises at the center of which are the conditions and modalities for the construction of these objects and whose reflections are far from being considered as a closed discipline, but on the contrary, are the early stages of the renewals to take place in health social sciences. From the moment these social scientists question medical, social, or political “demand,” the concepts mobilized by public health, and the health development actors, collaboration with other disciplines and their own research methods, they equip themselves with the means to creatively address both new subjects as well as more traditional “revisted” subjects. Just this act alone associates the return to oneself and work within the limits of other health disciplines related to public health and epidemiology as well as political or philosophical sciences.