The Concept of Disease and its Impact on the Epidemiological Research

Abstract

The issue of the scientific concepts and their definitions and how they implicated a specific form of in the development of scientific research inaugurates a series of important questions, particularly rich in the field of health. A review of the concept of disease began to question the sense of seeing disease exclusively from the objectivity which it is required in the scientific work. The scientific perspective assumes the disease as a separate entity from the analysis of social order and even individual, opens up debates both epistemological and methodological. In Mexico is intended to review and reflect on the contributions of philosophy of two important figures in the philosophy and the epistemological debate of social medicine: Georges Calguinhem and Michel Foucault. It is a reflection in order to open questions for discussion on the importance of philosophy in health research.