LEMOS, Flávia Cristina Silveira.; NASCIMENTO, Maria Lívia do.; GALINDO, Dolores Cristina Gomes.
Resumo:
This paper presents a theoretical analysis of current events questioning format, including in particular the medicalization for
risk management, education, city, work and family. It presents conceptual subsidies, based on philosophy, psychology, education,
sociology and history. Practices of the World Health Organization on the classiication of bodies and the resulting policies are
part of the gear medicalization of education and society in the present, by means of risk management. One sure way to govern the
life and conduct is founded by medicalized regulation of bodies today. Thus, the objective is to contribute to the discussion of this
practice and the concerns about its efects, in the experiences to be today. It is possible to conclude that medicalization expands in
the logic of the formation of healthy subjectivity and a supposed style of existence based on the notion of well-being and quality of
life as behavioral aspects and related to the perception of risks. Thus, medicalization starts to operate by health promotion as risk
management in the name of health as educational and preventive performance.