This book review is related to "Body in evidence: science and the redefinition of human" written by Francisco Ortega and Rafaela Zorzanelli. Using an accessible and instigating language, based in an actual and critical reflection, the authors focus on how the body has been increasingly conceived by the scientific explanations derived from the biomedical and technological references, in the contemporary society. The way we see and make the body scientific, the self-management of health and the biological determinism, inside a context that privileges the outer and the body, are the main themes treated in this work. This theoretical scenario, rigorously developed by the authors, guides us to question and reflect about these aspects in the area of Physical Education.
Body; science; health; physical education