PROFESSION OF BIOANALYSIS. A LOOK AT TIME

Abstract

This document develops a reflection on the origins of Bioanalysis as a profession and how from the foundations of modernity, it was instituted as a discipline far from its social work, because it remains anchored to the episteme that gave rise to it. This knowledge emerges under the mechanistic Cartesian positivist paradigm, as a training to support the doctor in laboratory diagnostic activities, since the doctors could not perform both tasks, patient care and laboratory diagnosis. With the passing of time it went from being a training to becoming a university-level career. However, professional practice is centered on the role of analyst, whose established logic is instrumental reason, generalizing a praxis that segments this knowledge in relation to other knowledge and establishes the mechanistic and laboratory criteria, isolated from social and critical thinking, not related to social and human knowledge and to the rest of the health team, because he and the bionalist look invisible in their contributions, limiting him, the thought of modernity, his actions and his contributions to the search for solutions to the problems of public health, which makes the rethinking of this knowledge urgent.