Abstract
In this article, we discuss Collective Health, in order to monitor how it is expressed and which senses updates. We place our research in a genealogical perspective, analyzing the composition and loss of sense of reformist territories in Italian and Brazilian scenarios. We discussed the images to express the collective health - the people, the group and civil society - to propose a different way of thinking that expression, of procedural and intensive character as a power. It is not the setting of this notion to assigned shapes that makes Collective Health, but the strength that characterizes the collective as something unspecific, power variation. Considering the uniqueness of the collective prevents that paradoxically, one reproduces a policy that affirms the precepts of Social Medicine or Public Health in the field of Collective Health, opening up the possibility for new productions of meaning.
Key words:
collective; Collective Health; epistemology; genealogy; healthcare reform