Possibilities and difficulties in the relationships between social sciences and epidemiology

Abstract

O artigo objetiva efetuar uma discuss??o te??rica sobre as dificuldades e possibilidades de articula????o entre epidemiologia e ci??ncias sociais no campo da sa??de p??blica. As autoras, atrav??s de m??todo reflexivo, problematizam e prop??em caminhos de possibilidades ante a principal indaga????o do texto que ?? como t??m sido apropriados os conceitos e categorias de uma disciplina pela outra. Apresentam como essencial para a articula????o a disposi????o dos pesquisadores de dialogarem; o exerc??cio te??rico disciplinar tanto quanto o di??logo entre elas; a compreens??o das l??gicas disciplinares que d??o sentido aos conceitos. Finalizam, discutindo os limites e avan??os na apropria????o da interdisciplinaridade, a partir de exemplos de algumas ??reas, especialmente de pesquisas sobre viol??ncia e sa??de.This article aims to establish a theoretical discussion about difficulties and possibilities of articulations between epidemiology and social science in public health. The authors, through reflexive method, consider ways of possibilities for one main question: how had been appropriated concepts and categories from one discipline to the other? They present as essential for the articulation the will of the researchers to dialogue; the theoretical disciplinary exercise as such as dialogue between them; the understanding of the disciplinary logics that give sense to the concepts. They finish, exemplifying the limits and advances in the appropriation of the interdisciplinarity, from results of some research, mainly on violence and health