Contemporary challenges for training and health practices: the refusal of a social mandate to sharpen knives

Abstract

This essay problematizes, based on the formulations of Luiz Antônio Baptista on "knife sharpeners" and Judith Butler in their discussion of recognition and public appearance, practices and perspectives of training and health care based on speeches that preach notions of a humanism that they can sharpen knives that produce the death of certain social groups. It inquires ways of working in health that contribute to strengthening a social asepsis that can reduce living to a priori patterns of existence. It indicates that this process has emerged long before school banks, but can be strengthened by educational standards that strengthen an aseptic perspective. It ends thinking about the present, the covid - 19 pandemic, possible processes and paths for the production of training, care and health management devices that refuse a social mandate of knife sharpeners. Finally, the article seeks to forge strategies for the production of a common between workers and users, who defend a life with its differences and its heterogenético power.