title: [Antinomies and epistemological "sutures" between the socio-biological and the collective-individual characteristics within the field of social epidemiology].
abstract: The complexity of the epidemiological object has provoked discussion of the elements that have constituted it over time sometimes assuming the form of antinomies. By using as substract fundamental texts, the formulation and the proposal for a solution of the antinomies between the social-biological and the collective-individual are been analysed. The validity of the theoretical wasy ahead indicated by the epidemiological discourse for the solution of the conflict of "laws" that surround this object are been criticized. The concept of the individual in Marx and Heller is been used to contribute to the "suturing" of the three strata of reality: the universal, the particular and the singular.
authors.affiliation: Secretaria de Saúde de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brasil.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: de Melo-Filho
mesh_terms: D004813:Epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D012962:Sociology, Medical