Transdisciplinaridade e Saúde Coletiva¹

Abstract

The paper reviews, from historical, epistemological and etymological standpoints, topics linked to the shaping of the concepts of analysis, method, and, specially, discipline. In a second moment, it evaluates critically the logical and epistemological foundations of Jantsch-Vasconcelos-Bibeau's sketch, toward a definition of disciplinarity and correlate terms ("multidisciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, metadisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity"). Finally, the author discusses his own concepts in the sense of a more accurate definition of transdisciplinarity, from a pragmatic point of view, exploring its potential uses in the realm of Public Health.

Scientific Method in Public Health; Epistemology; Disciplinarity and its Interrelations