Caring for Stories: Ontologies of Health Promotion, Infections and Structural Vulnerability in Plataforma de Saberes

Abstract

In this work I describe the multidisciplinary and collaborative efforts to develop the “health promotion appointment” as a space in which patients and community health promoters’ stories enact their worlds and experiences, and diverse ways of living and responding to problematic situations, here represented as “matters of care”. I propose rethinking the ways we listen to and tell stories at the intersections of the divergent worlds of global health we inhabit starting from the ontology of Plataforma de Saberes, a world composed by health promotion, infections, structural vulnerability, and “ecologies of perhaps”.