Abstract
In this essay we discuss the concept of soft technology applied to health work proposed by Emerson Merhy. We aimed to discuss the idea of soft technology and, to that end, we established two analytical paths. The first one dialogues with Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt, and Maurízio Lazzarato in thinking about the productive dimension of living labour, such as immaterial labour and value production in the healthcare field. In the second, driven by Michel Foucault, we analyze the ethical dimension of a work that has the production of a knowledge in the unpredictability of the encounter, the experience, and the event. We conclude by pointing out that healthcare work is a technology that produces care relationships and, thus, calls for the creation of ways of caring, working, and managing daily health by the metamorphosis of an ethos.
Keywords:
Labour; Health Work; Care; Immaterial Labour; Ethos