0038/2022 - Disputas epistemológicas na associação causal entre Zika vírus e síndrome congênita: uma análise de controvérsia Epistemological disputes in the causal link between Zika virus and congenital syndrome: a controversy analysis
Um aumento de más-formações em crianças em 2015 no Brasil é associado ao vírus Zika que circulara meses antes, deixando disputas que ainda possui ecos. Usando elementos de um campo das ciências sociais que se dedica ao mapeamento de controvérsias científicas, este trabalho realizou 15 entrevistas semiestruturadas com pesquisadores e gestores envolvidos na associação causal. Investigou-se como esses atores observam o papel de condicionantes sociais no desfecho da Síndrome Congênita por Vírus Zika (SCZ) e os caminhos trilhados para mitigá-los após a epidemia. Há uma preocupação de todos com variáveis sociais e sua relevância no desfecho da SCZ, com uma decepção generalizada sobre o encaminhamento dessas questões após o pico de casos, mas esses fatores não entraram em uma narrativa mais central sobre a causalidade. Nota-se também disputas epistêmicas sobre esse desfecho. Uns atrelam à responsabilidade ao poder público ou se resignam com o resultado; outros cobram posturas ativas de pesquisadores que participaram de centros do poder, com divergências sobre o posicionamento da ciência. O artigo pontua a necessidade de ciências reflexivas que atentem para sua agência no mundo, bem como para articulações de narrativas interdisciplinares e multicausais para crises de saúde pública no Brasil.
Palavras-chave:
Epidemias; Zika Vírus, Saúde Pública; Dissensos e Disputas; Sociologia
Abstract:
An increase in child malformations in 2015 in Brazil is associated with a Zika virus spread months earlier, leaving disputes that still echoes. Using elementsa sociology field dedicated to scientific controversies mapping, we have conducted 15 semi-structured interviews with researchers and administrators involved in the causal association. It was investigated how actorsdifferent areas observe the role of social conditions in the outcome of the Congenital Zika Syndrome (SCZ) and the paths taken to mitigate them after the epidemic. We observed concern with social variables and their relevance in the SCZ outcome, with a widespread disappointment about the referral of these issues after the case’s peak; however, these factors have not entered the central narrative about causality. There are epistemic disputes about this outcome. Some attach responsibility to the public power or resign themselves to the result; others demand more active positionsresearchers who had access to the decision-making process, with disagreements about the positioning of science. The article points out the need for reflexive sciences that dialogues with its agency on the phenomena, as well as to interdisciplinary and multicausal articulations for public narratives of public health crises in Brazil.
Keywords:
Epidemics; Zika Virus; Public Health; Dissent And Disputes; Sociology
Epistemological disputes in the causal link between Zika virus and congenital syndrome: a controversy analysis
Resumo (abstract):
An increase in child malformations in 2015 in Brazil is associated with a Zika virus spread months earlier, leaving disputes that still echoes. Using elementsa sociology field dedicated to scientific controversies mapping, we have conducted 15 semi-structured interviews with researchers and administrators involved in the causal association. It was investigated how actorsdifferent areas observe the role of social conditions in the outcome of the Congenital Zika Syndrome (SCZ) and the paths taken to mitigate them after the epidemic. We observed concern with social variables and their relevance in the SCZ outcome, with a widespread disappointment about the referral of these issues after the case’s peak; however, these factors have not entered the central narrative about causality. There are epistemic disputes about this outcome. Some attach responsibility to the public power or resign themselves to the result; others demand more active positionsresearchers who had access to the decision-making process, with disagreements about the positioning of science. The article points out the need for reflexive sciences that dialogues with its agency on the phenomena, as well as to interdisciplinary and multicausal articulations for public narratives of public health crises in Brazil.
Palavras-chave (keywords):
Epidemics; Zika Virus; Public Health; Dissent And Disputes; Sociology
Oliveira, M. B., Akerman, M.. Disputas epistemológicas na associação causal entre Zika vírus e síndrome congênita: uma análise de controvérsia. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2022/mar). [Citado em 22/12/2024].
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