Technique fetishism and value production in the health professional’s work

Abstract

This assay analyses the process of capitalist determination producing high-value in the work of the health professional, in its constitutive articulation with the fetish of the technique. The present study demonstrated that the work of health professionals in capitalism is converted into a commodity, the purpose of which is to produce high-value from health services. It was realized that the process of production value on work in this field, conforms to the parameters to achieve the demands of capital reproduction and requires a fetishized centralism about the set of techniques that compose this sector. Thus, it is demonstrated with this study that the technicality of the health professional contributes to the exploration of relative high-value and ideological conformation aligned with the interests of the dominant class in the capital society.