Banca de DEFESA: HELLEN MONIQUE DOS SANTOS CAETANO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : HELLEN MONIQUE DOS SANTOS CAETANO
DATE: 16/03/2021
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Banca Remota - participação dos membros via Google Meet e parecer eletrônico
TITLE:

"With more technique, with more Science": Controversies surrounding scientific and regulatory procedures with Cannabis in Brazil

KEY WORDS:

Keywords: Cannabis; Regulation; Medicines; Controversies; Science and Technology.

PAGES: 162
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Antropologia
SUMMARY:

Cannabis has a difficult definition, since its uses and purposes are immersed in a set of
controversies. This dissertation seeks, inspired by the social studies of science, to follow the
public controversies that involve the regulatory and scientific procedures that concerns
Cannabis and are in constant relationship with different actors and their processes. We took
2014 as a milestone, because in that year, the use of cannabidiol (one of the active ingredients
of Cannabis) for the treatment of children with epilepsies refractory to conventional medicines,
brought new questions to the social, economic and political debate about the use of this
substance in Brazil. The networks formed around the search for regulation and legalization for
therapeutic purposes in Brazil are marked by the activism of family members and patients who
developed techniques for their use. This practices configure an inversion in the traditional logic
between lay and scientific knowledge, with their participation in the development of science
and technology. The different uses of Cannabis are involved in controversies regarding the
applicability of its derivatives in a therapeutic way. Considering the ambiguous place occupied
by Cannabis today, as a “drug” and “medicine”, this dissertation continues to pursue multiple
networks and actors. They are the National Health Surveillance Agency, Federal Council of
Medicine, researchers, associations, pharmaceutical companies, research groups, patients and
activists. The analysis presented here are based on fieldwork that privileged official documents,
scientific articles, newspaper articles and other media available on the internet, tracing the
participation of these different actors in the technological and scientific development with
Cannabis in the country, between the years 2014 and 2019. In this path, we pay attention to the
importance of each of these actors in maintaining their own controversies in motion, instability
and constant mutation. Thus, we understand here Cannabis as a participant that engenders
relationships and networks, constituting different types of scientific and technical facts.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2210016 - DEBORA ALLEBRANDT
Interna - 1506828 - NADIA ELISA MEINERZ
Interna - 1977789 - ISABEL SANTANA DE ROSE
Externa à Instituição - ROSANA MARIA NASCIMENTO CASTRO SILVA - UERJ