Health promotion in the Brazilian democratization process: biopolicies and constitution of health subjects

Abstract In a study on health promotion as a biopolicy, it was aimed to analyze how the biopolicy practices constitute subjects, in the Brazilian democratization process, in the 1980s and 1990, sthrough the objectivation by speeches and norms. The survey was based on documents that install health promotion, considering them as monuments, intentional ones, with effect on the objectification of the subjects. Health promotion was considered a historical practice, dated and as strategical device of governmentality. By organizing the documents in subfiles, the analysis was conducted by raising the issues - archeological and genealogical ones - by Michel Foucault. Health promotion is strategically articulated with extended health discourse and developmental economic relations. During the medical government of life, the objectivization of subjects in the relation with the practices of health promotion take place, specially in the primary care, what makes it possible to problematize the subjectivity in theses spaces.