CURE AND CARE - A history of a relationship (an essay) - This essay referes to a study between Cure art and Care art. If there has been CARE since Mankind has been established, it was an adiaphoristic knowledge so that elaborated activities in care and cure both have taken part in it. Making use of authors that dead with both questions on power relation between male and female genders and pointing out those activities on a historical context, it has been verified that there is a rupture between Care and Care, being the latest as hegemonic. CARE turns into nursing as an activity which subordinate. This is a long - term research mark point to situate native notions of the subject-its own speech