this article aims to analyze the configuration of public in the health field, from a discussion about transformations that have allowed for passing from a public health discourse to a collective health discourse. the right to health is taken as the focus of the problematization of these transformations. the metamorphoses of public and their articulation with health have been grounded on the objectification of public as a device, along with conceptual operators of biopower, truth, and subjectivity. the configuration of public is here discussed from the right as response to a historical urgency and the type of game established between public health and collective health.
Device; Right; Public Health; Collective Health