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0222/2016 - The short life of Norplant in Brazil: controversies and aggregations between science, society and the State
A breve vida do Norplant® no Brasil: controvérsias e reagregações entre ciência, sociedade e Estado

Author:

• Ana Pimentel - Pimentel, Ana - Instituto Fernandes Figueira - <ana.limapimentel@gmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• Claudia Bonan Jannotti - Bonan, C. - Instituto Nacional da Saúde da Mulher, da Criança e do Adolescente Fernandes Ferreira / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (IFF/FIOCRUZ) - <cbonan@globo.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8695-6828
• Luiz Antonio Teixeira - Teixeira, Luiz Antonio - FioCruz, COC - <luiztei3@gmail.com>
• Paula Gaudenzi - Gaudenzi, Paula - RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ - Instituto Fernandes Figueira - <paula.gaudenzi@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4039-1088

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Abstract:

Norplant is the hallmark of the first contraceptive subdermal hormonal implant registered in the world, developed in the laboratories of the Population Council, an international organization directed to the subject of fertility and population growth. The article revisits the history of the contraceptive in Brazil since his arrival, through clinical research until its ban in 1986 by the Brazilian agency responsible for drugs at the time. Circulation generated controversies relating to research practices, side effects and political uses of the method. This article focuses its analysis of the differences related to the clinical research practices. We used the controversy analysis technique, revisiting versions of those involved, investigating their understanding and the effects that this object produced in their networks. The Norplant caused displacement and associations between social groups, state officials, scientists and doctors, industry, pharmaceuticals, research procedures, bureaucratic instruments, contraceptive users. Scientific medical thinking styles were shaken and new ways of thinking scientific autonomy began to be discussed in the country.

Keywords:

science society and the state research ethics sexual and reproductive health contraception

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Pimentel, Ana, Bonan, C., Teixeira, Luiz Antonio, Gaudenzi, Paula. The short life of Norplant in Brazil: controversies and aggregations between science, society and the State. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2016/May). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-short-life-of-norplant-in-brazil-controversies-and-aggregations-between-science-society-and-the-state/15647



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