Ciência, técnica e valor à luz dos discursos biomédicos

Abstract

The present research consists in a discussion and investigation about the issues regarding science, technicality, and the questions of value that permeate scientific practices and discourse. In a first moment, the dichotomy fact/value and the alleged neutrality of science is analyzed drawing on the contributions of philosophy and sociology authors. Some considerations on the concepts of technoscience, on the Weberian idea of science as well as Boltanski‟s notion of justification have enabled the operationalization of the objectives of this research. These objectives, in turn, have consisted in identifying how trainee biomedical scientists justify their professional practices in evaluative terms. To do so, interviews and observations in colloquiums, as well as dissertation defenses and lectures in the field have been used.