Transdisciplinarity and anthropoformation: its importance in health investigations

Abstract

Besides the reference norms from statistics - when the behavior of the person to be cared for or educated has to be taken into account in a singular way - the position of the care takers is difficult because of normative models related to the diseases that do not take in account the patients in one side, and in the other the obligation to consider the particularities of each person that interfere on health by behaviors but are source of complexity, thus difficult to treat. Transdisciplinarity invites to a paradigmal change to a two way road, with this parting being unable to be totally identified. It is close to - corresponding to its traditional meaning - an epistemology that points to the importance of new disciplinary frontiers, of non-defined zones, unreachable by traditional closed scientific objects. But it imposes, on the other hand, the construction of a new epistemology of the subject that always participates, in a way or another, of the observation by his strong interaction with the object, that we define by the neologism "anthropoformation". By the change it causes, it permits to offer, at the same time, an attitude to untie disciplinary knowledges among them and a capacity of integrating the subject, his undiscipline and his interactions. It drives you to a phenomenology of health by associating the ways of being and the ways of understanding. The text aims to precise, in the field of health, different points raised by this paradigmatical change.