THE ROLE OF THE EVENT IN RESEARCH WITHIN THE SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES IN HEALTHCARE

Abstract

The study begins by recognizing the value of an interdisciplinary perspective from the Social and Human Sciences in Health, both in establishing research in the fi eld and in contribution to the understanding of the health-disease-care processes. The hypothesis suggests that the event emerges as an important element for research in this context, as it provides a powerful element to the construction of knowledge that values and considers the relational dimension of subjective experiences, which are central to the study objects in this fi eld. This theoretical essay adopts the notion of event as interpreted through Jacques Derrida’s work and other authors who expand and deepen this concept. With this premise, it seeks to relate this notion to the research path (method) that connects health to the social and human sciences, focusing on three simultaneous or complementary topics: Investigative Composites, Turbulence in Knowledge Production, and Performative Gestures.