This paper, having Psychoanalysis and Canguilhem’s approach to health as references, presents a clinical fragment of pediatric oncology and proposes a discussion concerning the concept of health in a context of complex technical interventions. This practice is focused on redeeming the subjective dimension – revealing that health, in these patients, concerns mainly the possibility each one of them has of creating possible ways of living.
Health; subject; psychoanalysis; pediatric oncology