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ARIAS-VALENCIA, Samuel Andrés. From everyday knowledge to scientific knowledge of the disease in populations. Difficulties and challenges of epidemiology as a scientific discipline. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2017, n.32, pp.83-101. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n32.59163.

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.

Palabras clave : Epidemiology; public health; medicalization; history of science; sociology of knowledge.

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