The psychiatric science by STS perspective: the conflicts in the legitimization of care for infantojuvenis

• Grant number: 14/06638-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2014
• End date: December 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Sociology of Knowledge
• Principal Investigator: Thales Haddad Novaes de Andrade
• Grantee: Arieli Januzzi Buttarello
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Under the auspices of scientific-technical development , live -oriented posterity , seeking wellness and prevention ensuring a "better future " . The current National Agenda of Priorities for Research in Brazilian Health brings mental health as a necessary investment and research area, having as one of its foci are directed towards the juvenile population health technologies. Against the north studies of Science , Technology and Society (STS ) , is attentive to what and how science and psychiatric practice are building techniques to guarantee the mental well -being of so-called " future of the nation ." The proposed research is based on a case study of a Psychosocial Care Center juvenile ( CAPSi ) , which gives institutionalizing practices of current psychiatric science, implemented by the Brazilian public policy and mental health based on principles of multidisciplinary approach . The objectives of this study is to understand the relationship of race to legitimize the care of child and adolescent mental health , assessing what the social impact of a presumed scientific hierarchy with the supremacy of Psychiatry ; using documentary analysis of medical records of individual users of the center, semi-structured interviews with psychiatrists and multidisciplinary team responsible for the service demand it , and participant observation at meetings of case discussion about users of the Centre. With the results , aims to be a way of introducing the CTS studies in a recent thematic and full of loopholes ; well as assist in raising prospects reflections and revisions in the production of public policies .