The dynamics of the biomedical and health knowledge: a sociological interpretation

Author(s)

Maria Conceição da Costa ^[1] ; Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva ^[2]

Affiliation

^[1] Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Brasil

^[2] Universidade de São Paulo - Brasil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Sociologias; v. 21, n. 50, p. 18-47, 2019-04-00.

Abstract

Abstract The biomedical and health knowledge production has grown as a research object of Social Sciences. Scientific and technological changes, as well as the emergence of new social arrangements in the way research is conducted and agendas drawn up, have produced this interest. The aim of this essay is to present some central characteristics of this subject as an object of sociological research, for which we highlight three axes of analysis intertwined with each other, related to the transformations in the medical and health area, the pattern of financing research and its technological platform. Thereby, the text provides some tools to advance the research from the perspectives of social studies of science and of sociology on the production of biomedical knowledge and in contemporary health. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 17/18500-0 - The innovation dynamics of the biopharmaceutical industry: new theories about technological change in monoclonal antibodies development
• Grantee: Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• FAPESP's process: 15/24133-5 - The Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for health in Brazil: the role of institutional and political framework in the development of research on Monoclonal Antibodies
• Grantee: Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• FAPESP's process: 16/20638-8 - Bio nations : The emergence of research and therapies with stem cells in Brazil and India
• Grantee: Maria Conceição da Costa
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants