Abstract
The article aims to reflect on the importance of human education in a hermeneutic-dialogical perspective for the practice of health professionals, their training and health promotion. In this sense, it forms a chorus with productions favorable to the understanding that practice, training, and health promotion must also be anchored in the paradigm of the medical humanities. Methodologically, it is a literature review anchored in a hermeneutical work with classic texts by the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer on health and secondary literature on the subject. It is divided into three parts. The first analyzes medicine and some of its conceptions about health and disease throughout history, observing the transformations from a broader medical science, founded on religion and spirituality, to the predominance of the technical-scientific paradigm. In the second, delimitations are carried out on some essential concepts for understanding the importance of human education for the health professional. In the final part, an idea of human education supported by the hermeneutic-dialogical perspective is investigated. It concludes by affirming the importance that the specialized technical knowledge in the health area should be anchored by practical knowledge, of an ethical-formative nature, based on the hermeneutic notion of dialogue.
Keywords:
Human Education; Hermeneutics; Health; Dialogue