Abstract
This paper criticizes some notions and circulating theoretical elements related to the concept of health, taking them as unstable and polysemic. It is an exercise of thought experiment using notions of health - along with notions of disease and care - as they appear in Health writings, to contribute to broader way of thinking about this issue. Five points were elected, presented as doubles - not as dualisms, binarism or dilemmas - as follows: generalizations and singularities; possession and escape; medicalization and moralization; significant and meanings; and limits and margins. This study aims to perceive these notions in their possibilities of expansion and change, in a movement that is productive to the debates about health, far from rigid standards established by univocal scientific bases. We understand that this exercise can contribute to broaden the notion of health that permeates health professional attention to population.
Keywords:
health; margins; singularity; double