Abstract
This paper presents a theoretical analysis of current events questioning format, including in particular the medicalization for risk management, education, city, work and family. It presents conceptual subsidies, based on philosophy, psychology, education, sociology and history. Practices of the World Health Organization on the classification of bodies and the resulting policies are part of the gear medicalization of education and society in the present, by means of risk management. One sure way to govern the life and conduct is founded by medicalized regulation of bodies today. Thus, the objective is to contribute to the discussion of this practice and the concerns about its effects, in the experiences to be today. It is possible to conclude that medicalization expands in the logic of the formation of healthy subjectivity and a supposed style of existence based on the notion of well-being and quality of life as behavioral aspects and related to the perception of risks. Thus, medicalization starts to operate by health promotion as risk management in the name of health as educational and preventive performance.
Keywords:
medicalization; education; government of life; risk management; psychology