The goal of this article is to understand the challenges to the effectuation of health rights, as stated in the 1988 Constitution, from the perspective of the civilizatory project of the Brazilian Movement for Sanitary Reform (MRSB). Initially we highlight the civilizational dimension of the MRSB and try to emphasize its counter-hegemonic character in the political and epistemological dimensions. Delimits a constituent process of rights and the creation/production of a new field of knowledge, Collective Health, which allows, in our opinion, align it into post-abyssal thought, an ecology of knowledge.
Democracy; Right to health; Health care reform; Public health; Ecology of knowledge