title: [Teaching and health: a biological view].
abstract: Living systems are structure determined systems. Teaching is never feasible, but learning is inevitable, a comment by an observer about some aspect of the constant changes occurring while life goes on. Teachers are all those who open up spaces for conviviality and allow congruent changes to take place. There are no instructive interactions in nature. Health and the biology of living systems are phenomena studied in different domains. What is healthy or unhealthy for humans, is defined by human culture. As biological phenomena, health and disease are relational configurations of the organism and its medium. From this perspective, individual health is a social phenomenon.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, ICB, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Alfredo Balena 190, Belo Horizonte, MG 30130-100 Brasil. mvaz@mono.ich.ufmg.br
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authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vaz
mesh_terms: D000486:Allergy and Immunology; D001695:Biology; D006262:Health; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D009446:Neurobiology; D013663:Teaching
vernacular_title: O ensino e a saúde: um olhar biológico.