Acendendo as luzes da ciência para iluminar o caminho do progresso: ensaio de antropologia simétrica da lei de biossegurança brasileira

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2006

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. ABSTRACT This dissertation takes as the object of a documental ethnography the legislative appreciation of the Brazilian Biosafety Bill, between October 2003, and March 2005. The construction of this Bill of Law, responsible for regulating research and trade of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as well as the use of frozen embryos as raw material for embryonic stem cell (ESC) research, was glanced at from a symmetrical perspective in a dialogue with Bruno Latour. By focusing on the role of experts in the legislative process, I aimed at identifying how the relations between science and politics stood within a context of crisis of objectivity in science precisely, the universe of biosafety. By analyzing the discourses uttered within the formal deliberation arenas, the opposing groups in the Federal Congress and its main arguments were outlined. I saw these negotiations as an instance of the reordering of hierarchies which occurs whence science is no longer able to definitely establish the essential limits of entities such as transgenic organisms, stem cells, and exutero human embryos. In the Brazilian case, the winning discourse resorted to, in both cases (GMOs and ESCs), a cost-benefit pragmatic equation, as well as a fait accompli strategy, in order to adapt the final Bill to another given, which appeared as far more untouchable than nature itself: economic and technological progress.

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transgenics stem cells federal congress transgênicos antropologia symmetrical anthropology. precautionary principle congresso nacional biosafety biossegurança antropologia simétrica princípio da precaução células-tronco

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