This text seeks to discuss health labour at present, in its complex relation to professional education. The research stems from a questioning of the processes that lead to the production of technoscientific knowledge, its practices and its environment in order to focus on technical labour. The aim is to promote integration, albeit small, with the current discussion on labour. The field research was initiated with the choice of a health research laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, which is part of one of the country's main public health research institutions.
research practices; health labour process; public research institutions; public health laboratories; public health