This text describes the recent trajectory of the social sciences congresses on health; from the historical conjuncture of the insertion of social sciences in the medicine colleges curricula to the foundation of the Brazilian Association of Post-graduation Studies in Collective Health (ABRASCO). To account for this description, the problem axis - the individual-society relation - was taken as reference; as foundation mark not only of the social sciences but also of the collective health. In this perspective, the congresses subjects were retaken as indicatives of the area foundation marks and the explanation tendencies, by signing those present in all of them and the emergent questions. By this mean, we thought the collective health constitution as a tense field shared not only by social and historical "nature", but also by the possibility of reflections on the interfaces among the different sciences which compose them, and the congresses, as opportunities for interlocutions among them.
Individual-society relation; Fields of knowledge; Social sciences in health
