Global Journal of Human Social Science, G: Linguistics and Education, Volume 22 Issue 9

© 2022. Régia Cristina Oliveira & Eunice Almeida da Silva. This research/ review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creative commons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Body, Health and Society: Socioanthropological Considerations By Régia Cristina Oliveira & Eunice Almeida da Silva University of São Paulo Abstract- This text presents a sociological reflection on the biomedical discourse on the body and health in our society. We propose to address the sociological, anthropological and historical studies on body, health, illness and the scientific field of Health. The objective is to provide a discussion on the processes of society medicalization and of social inequalities in health. Keywords: body; health and illness; social class; biomedicine. GJHSS-G Classification: DDC Code: 362.1089 LCC Code: RA563.M56 BodyHealthandSocietySocioanthropologicalConsiderations Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: G Linguistics & Education Volume 22 Issue 9 Version 1.0 Year 2022 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: