abstract: Within ethics, a number of scholars advocate an interdisciplinary approach of combining the two traditionally different professions of science and philosophy with the confidence that this collaboration will be a mutually beneficial experience. Current ethicist-scientist interactions include embedded-ethicists and research ethics consultation services. Both methods are employed with the hope that they will reduce social and ethical problems that could arise from scientific research, and enhance the reflective capacity of investigative teams. While much effort has been put forth in the endeavor of creating ethicist-scientist interactions, there remains opportunity to refine these new interaction models to make them more robust. There is need for ethicists to understand the context of ethical decision-making in the laboratory. By extension, before interacting with scientists in a research lab, research ethicists ought to have the ability to understand the science and also be familiar with the different factors that influence scientific research, such as funding, productivity requirements, time constraints, politics of laboratories and institutional reward structures. Through literature review and the analysis of qualitative data obtained from the ethnographic study in a neuroscience laboratory, this thesis explores the strengths and weaknesses of ethicist-scientist interactions and aims to understand the culture, traditions and values of this community and their perspectives on their role as scientists and their relationship to ethics. This study shows that the quantity and quality of ethics discussions in the lab are limited and dictated by time constraints and minimal incentives. Other influencing factors are the researchers' perspectives on ethics and how they view their role as a scientist in relation to the public. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Applied Biological Sciences 2012

Submitted by Nádia Paes (nadia66paes@gmail.com) on 2016-09-30T14:50:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Anny Caroliny de Lima Rodrigues.pdf: 2341613 bytes, checksum: 3827294e8969ee50f99966d21ec9ab46 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2016-09-30T16:16:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Anny Caroliny de Lima Rodrigues.pdf: 2341613 bytes, checksum: 3827294e8969ee50f99966d21ec9ab46 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-30T16:16:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Anny Caroliny de Lima Rodrigues.pdf: 2341613 bytes, checksum: 3827294e8969ee50f99966d21ec9ab46 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-27 / CAPES / Objetivamos aqui ir além do simples papel de descrever o cotidiano das práticas laboratoriais. Tentamos entender essa linha tênue que conecta ciência, natureza e sociedade. O que está em pauta é um estudo do cotidiano de uma rede de laboratórios, conectados ao Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Áreas Úmidas (INAU), que tem as Áreas Úmidas (AUs) como seu principal objeto de pesquisa e uma indagação sobre as políticas da natureza que atravessam as alianças entre Psicologia e Prevenção de Desastres. Compreender essas redes só se tornará possível se considerarmos as vicissitudes e contribuições das AUs no contexto da ciência, tecnologia e inovação no estado de Mato Grosso. A interação, entre fatores ambientais, questões humanas e o laboratório, cria uma rede heterogênea de actantes, na qual as relações entre humanos, meio ambiente e ciência está tão imbricada que dificilmente conseguimos pensar um sem levar em consideração o outro, o que justifica a crescente leva de pesquisas que tem as Áreas Úmidas como uma de suas principais fontes de material científico. Observando as descrições de cada laboratório do INAU, percebemos o quão diferentes eles são, mas, ao mesmo tempo, podemos notar que ambos se relacionam a um objetivo comum, que é a contribuição na preservação das áreas úmidas, assim como o bem estar da comunidade local. Comunidade que não se restringe apenas aos actantes humanos, mas também se expande a toda rede heterogênea que compõe o habitat das áreas úmidas, sejam eles humanos ou não humanos, incluindo aí as plantas, fungos, animais e também a água, um dos fatores primordiais na composição do que denominamos AUs em muitos laboratórios. O saber popular também é considerado dentro das pesquisas. Ao considerar o saber popular e local dentro do saber científico, transporta-se a população local para dentro do laboratório, permitindo trocas de saberes que não seriam possíveis se apenas a ciência fosse considerada dentro da pesquisa. Quando a Psicologia adentra os laboratórios, ela não produz apenas uma narrativa sobre o outro, mas uma narrativa que é também do outro. O psicólogo pode fazer o papel do observador dentro do laboratório ao mesmo tempo em que pensa o modo como o INAU lida com seus dados, em relação ao manejo sustentável do meio ambiente e incidentes ambientais, bem como estes podem chegar a população. / We aim here to go beyond the simple role of describing the daily routine of laboratory practices. We try to understand this tenuous line that connects science, nature and society. What is at stake is the study of the routine of a net of laboratories, connected to the National Institute of Science and Technology of Humid Areas (hereby INAU), which has the Humid Areas (hereby AUs) as its objective of research and a question about the policies of nature that go through the alliances between Psychology and Prevention of Disasters. Comprehending these nets is only possible if we consider the vicissitudes and contributions of AUs in the context of science, technology and innovation to the state of Mato Grosso. The interaction among environmental factors, human questions and laboratory creates a heterogeneous net of actants in which the relations among humans, environment and science is so imbricated that hardly we can think of one without considering the other, which justifies the growing number of researches, which has the Humid Areas as one of its strong source of scientific data. Observing the descriptions of each laboratory of INAU, we realized how different they are, but at the same time we can notice that both relate to a common objective, which is the contribution to the preservation of humid areas; such as the well being of the local community. Community that does not restrain only to the humans actants, but also expands to all the heterogeneous net, which composes the habitat of humid areas, human being or not human, including the plants, fungus, animals and also the water, one of the primary factors of what we denominated AUs in many laboratories. The popular knowledge is also considered inside the researches. When considering the popular and local knowledge inside the scientific knowledge, it transports the local population to inside the laboratory, allowing exchanges of knowledge that would not be possible if only the science was considered inside the research. When the psychology enters the laboratories, it does not produce only a narrative about the other, but a narrative that is also of the other. The psychologist may have the role of observer inside the laboratory, at the same time that he/she thinks in how the INAU deals with its data in relation to the sustainable management of the environment and environmental incidents, as well as how these may get to the population.