This article is the result of the dissertation “Collective health and philosophy: Hannah Arendt’s contributionsto the humanization debate” aiming to analyze the humanization concept in the production of the CollectiveHealth field. The study used qualitative methodology, and the empirical material was constituted by officialdocuments of the Ministry of Health as well as selected articles in the field of Collective Health. It analyzedhow the term humanization is used, trying to apprehend how it is understood and built as a concept. Thereference framework was constituted by the bibliography that examines the historical context of socialtransformations through which working on health in Modernity has gone through, added to the reflectionsabout the concepts of violence and power developed by Hannah Arendt. Conceptual distinctions necessaryin the configuration of medical power in health services were acknowledged, providing new approaches tothe topic of humanization.
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