October, 2017
Progress in stem cell research worldwide reflects an optimistic wager on regenerative medicine and its promise to repair the body when injured aging, or ailing.
The paper Stem cell research in Brazil: the production of a new field of science (HCS-Manguinhos an./Mar. 2017) offers an an overview of stem cell research in the country.
Rafaela Teixeira Zorzanelli (UERJ, Rio de Janeiro), Angela Vasconi Speroni (UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro), Rachel Aisengart Menezes (UFRJ) and Annette Leibing (Université de Montréal) investigate the construction of a new field of science through a literature review of the publications released in the early twenty-first century by Brazilian researchers.
This review identifies controversial questions in the construction of this scientific field, especially issues involving the media as a disseminator of values and certain social representations, but also patients and their families energized by the promises of the “medicine of the future.”
Read in Manguinhos:
Luna, Naara. Pesquisas com células-tronco: um estudo de caso sobre a dinâmica de um segmento do campo científico. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2012, vol.19, no.1.
Medeiros, Flavia Natercia da Silva. Fora da ordem natural: a natureza nos discursos sobre a clonagem e a pesquisa com células-tronco em jornais brasileiros. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Nov 2013, vol.20, suppl.1.
Almeida, Carla, DalCol, Franciane Lovati and Massarani, Luisa. Controvérsia científica no telejornalismo brasileiro: um estudo sobre a cobertura das células-tronco no Jornal Nacional. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Nov 2013, vol.20, suppl.1.
