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0457/2016 - The construction of biomedical knowledge and health policies: Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
Construcción de conocimiento biomédico y políticas de salud: Síndrome Urémico Hemolítico y Fibromialgia

Author:

• Marcela Beatriz Belardo - Belardo, Marcela Beatriz - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Medicina Social - <marcelabelardo@yahoo.com.ar>

Co-author(s):

• Kenneth Rocha Camargo JR - Camargo JR, Kenneth Rocha - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Medicina Social - <kenneth@ims.uerj.br>

Thematic Area:

Ciências Sociais

Abstract:

The article deals with the construction of knowledge about diseases. The general objective is to analyze the process of constructing scientific knowledge of two diseases in comparative perspective: Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. The work reflects on the construction of biomedical knowledge and health policies, specifically how scientific knowledge impacts on the design of policies. Our research strategy was based on the analysis of scientific literature, health programs and bills of Argentina. The analysis was based on the axial model of diagnostic categories (semiological, morphological, explanatory and epidemiological) developed by Camargo Jr in order to detect how the own characteristics of biomedical sphere is translated into the political sphere. Research shows the hierarchy that is given to each axis is crucial when designing health policy and it revealed that when the biomedical field can not define the disease based on their clinical and epidemiological reasoning roles between biomedicine and politics are reversed. Then it is politics that recognizes the disease and gives the legitimacy that patients need.

Keywords:

Conocimiento científicoPolíticas de saludcategoría diagnósticaSíndrome Urémico HemolíticoFibromialgia

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Belardo, Marcela Beatriz, Camargo JR, Kenneth Rocha. The construction of biomedical knowledge and health policies: Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2016/Oct). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-construction-of-biomedical-knowledge-and-health-policies-hemolytic-uremic-syndrome-and-fibromyalgia/15883



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