O ensino das ciências sociais em saúde: entre o aplicado e o teórico

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"The models of teaching social sciences and clinical practice are insufficient for the needs of practical-reflective teaching of social sciences applied to health. The scope of this article is to reflect on the challenges and perspectives of social science education for health professionals. In the 1950s the important movement bringing together social sciences and the field of health began, how- ever weak credentials still prevail. This is due to the low professional status of social scientists in health and the ill-defined position of the social sciences professionals in the health field. It is also due to the scant importance attributed by stu- dents to the social sciences, the small number of professionals and the colonization of the social sci- ences by the biomedical culture in the health field. Thus, the professionals of social sciences applied to health are also faced with the need to build an identity, even after six decades of their presence in the field of health. This is because their ambiva- lent status has established them as a partial, in- complete and virtual presence, requiring a com- plex survival strategy in the nebulous area between social sciences and health."