This text looks for to analyze the content of the conference pronounced for the bahian professor, Jairnilson Paim, in IX the Brazilian Congress of Collective Health, carried through in Recife (PE), in 2009. Evidences the current debate on the importance of the utopian thought in the definition of a new paradigm in the field of the academic research, considered for diverse authors, aiming at the praxis for the consolidation of the Brazilian Health System and of the rescue of principles and behaviors that had guided the process of Brazilian Sanitary Reform (RSB), as conquests of the organized society.
Utopia; Public Health Reform; Praxis; Unified Health System