Márcia de Oliveira Teixeira’s research while affiliated with Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and other places

A bula é um documento técnico – científico, dire-cionado a profissionais da saúde e pacientes, que acompanha o medicamento para informar sua composição, características e uso. Considerando a importância e complexidade dessas informa-ções técnico-científicas, houve transformações na regulação de seu conteúdo e de seus elementos representativos. Questiona-se, contudo, quais as re-presentações que a informação técnico-científica as-sumiu em relação à compreensão de seus usuários. Com o objetivo de conhecer e analisar as diversas configurações contemporâneas que a bula de me-dicamento tem sofrido sob influência dos marcos regulatórios ao longo do tempo, evidenciaram-se as representações que a informação técnico-científica da bula de medicamento vêm assumindo para com-preensão de seus usuários. Para tanto, realizou-se este estudo qualitativo centrado em levantamento, identificação, sistematização e análise comparativa dos instrumentos jurídicos que compõem o marco regulatório nacional dessas bulas. Os resultados de-monstram que sua regulação possui um arcabouço legal histórico, que vem se desenvolvendo há sete décadas, juntamente com a criação de órgãos de fiscalização em saúde e em vigilância sanitária. É possível notar que o desenvolvimento do processo regulatório das bulas de medicamento, apesar de ocorrer entre longos espaços de tempo, a partir da criação da Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitá-ria (1999) e das consultas públicas, começou a ser realizado com um pouco mais de frequência. Assim, nos últimos dez anos, a regulação da bula de medica-mento passou a ser mais específica, principalmente quanto aos aspectos de forma e conteúdo.

The aim of this paper was to investigate the construction process of the MPL regulation in Brazil through an informational ergonomics perspective, in order to verify the influence of these processes in a historical period of the existing standards and structuring content of the MPL. With the purpose to verify the influence of these processes in a historical period of the existing standards and structuring content of MPL, a qualitative study was conducted using the technique of document analysis. This in order to assess the medicine MPL regulation in the historical period from 1946 to 2009 (date of first publication of the regulation until the earliest one) on informational ergonomics aspects of form and layout

Resumo Resumo A pesquisa em biomedicina distingue-se pela emergência de uma lógica fabril em seu processo de produção de conhecimento científico, justificada pela constituição de um ambiente propício à aceleração da inovação industrial. Esse processo redundou na adoção, por instituições de pesquisa, de estratégias de gestão do mundo fabril. A política de C&T nacional estimula novas formas de gestão nas instituições de pesquisa, visando ao aumento da produtividade e ao desenvolvimento de áreas com maior potencial econômico. Entre outros dispositivos, as plataformas de equipamentos figuram sistematicamente nas ações de fomento a pesquisa. Entretanto, há pouco conhecimento sistematizado sobre o uso e a dinâmica local das plataformas. Partindo do estudo da experiência de uma instituição pública de pesquisa, procuramos caracterizar o modelo de plataformas que emergiu do processo de re-construção local. Palavras-chaves plataformas tecnológicas; biomedicina; gestão; instituições públicas; equipamentos. Abstract Biomedical research is distinguished by the emergence of an industrial logic in the process of scientific knowledge production, justified by the creation of an environment conducive to the acceleration of industrial innovation. This process resulted in the adoption of research management strategies from the industrial world. National S&T policy encourages new forms of management in research institutions, aimed at increasing productivity and developing areas with greater economic potential. Among other devices, the hardware platforms listed systematically in the actions of research promotion. However, there is little systematic knowledge about the use of local and dynamic platforms. From the study of the experience of a public research institution, we characterize the platform model that emerged from the process of local re-construction. Keywords technological platforms; biomedicine; management; public institution; equipment

Resumo A pesquisa em biomedicina distingue-se pela emergência de uma lógica fabril em seu processo de produção de conhecimento científico, justificada pela constituição de um ambiente propício à aceleração da inovação industrial. Esse processo redundou na adoção, por instituições de pesquisa, de estratégias de gestão do mundo fabril. A política de C&T nacional estimula novas formas de gestão nas instituições de pesquisa, visando ao aumento da produtividade e ao desenvolvimento de áreas com maior potencial econômico. Entre outros dispositivos, as plataformas de equipamentos figuram sistematicamente nas ações de fomento a pesquisa. Entretanto, há pouco conhecimento sistematizado sobre o uso e a dinâmica local das plataformas. Partindo do estudo da experiência de uma instituição pública de pesquisa, procuramos caracterizar o modelo de plataformas que emergiu do processo de re-construção local. Palavras-chaves plataformas tecnológicas; biomedicina; gestão; instituições públicas; equipamentos. Abstract Biomedical research is distinguished by the emergence of an industrial logic in the process of scientific knowledge production, justified by the creation of an environment conducive to the acceleration of industrial innovation. This process resulted in the adoption of research management strategies from the industrial world. National S&T policy encourages new forms of management in research institutions, aimed at increasing productivity and developing areas with greater economic potential. Among other devices, the hardware platforms listed systematically in the actions of research promotion. However, there is little systematic knowledge about the use of local and dynamic platforms. From the study of the experience of a public research institution, we characterize the platform model that emerged from the process of local re-construction. Keywords technological platforms; biomedicine; management; public institution; equipment

The Brazilian Policy on Health Sciences and Technology, inspired both by the action of international bodies such as OECD and WHO and by the emergence of the concepts of innovation and national innovation system, encourages the introduction of mechanisms for coordinating scientific research within public research institutions (PRIs). Thus, during the last decade, the PRIs have made use of coordination mechanisms such as technology platforms. In this article I analyze the use of the mechanism "Platform" in a local and specific area of science production in the field of biomedicine. For this purpose, we analyzed the experience of a public research institution in the field of biomedicine in organizing a network of Technology Platforms. The analysis focuses on the heterogeneous and circumstantial relationships that support the adoption and particularly the use of the platform in the coordination of practices between research groups and laboratories in the area of biomedicine. In summary, this study investigates the local use of mechanisms related to the contemporary international production of scientific knowledge, thus joining the studies that promote systematic investigations on the process of dissemination of global entities.

The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze the dynamics of cooperative public health research networks, and their utilization as the principal coordination instrument for a technological development program in a public health research institution. It begins with a few methodological considerations in regard to carrying out surveys and systemizing and analyzing data. Next a brief conceptual explanation of cooperative networks is made along with the characteristics of the program. Then the cooperative networks are described and analyzed, observing the relationships between the various actors that dynamize the program, the presence of IT and communications tools, and the sharing of the techno-scientific base among the projects of cooperative networks. The article concludes by interlacing some considerations about the local appropriation of a conceptual techno-scientific organizational model - the cooperative networks. The creation of a data bank of empirical data, and of local concepts and categories for analyses are considered to be decisive factors for increasing the knowledge acquired through sociology and anthropology about research best practices and administration of biomedical research.

In recent decades, biomedical research institutions in different countries have implemented new devices to coordinate research activity. Among the devices described in the literature one can find technology platforms, which are usually associated with collaborative research and the coordination of intensive use of large and highly complex multi-user equipment. In Brazil, the emergence of technology platforms dates back to the 1980s. More recently, there are platforms related to the reorganization processes of research institutions. This also applies to the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, which established technology platforms as part of its strategy to foster scientific research on technologies very likely to be adopted by the Unified Health System. The intent is to provide technological services to laboratories involved in this kind of studies. The purpose of this study is to analyze the use of the "technology platform" device by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, emphasizing the possible implications of the adoption of this device and method of organizing the production process of science in biomedicine. This article describes the preliminary results of the study, which employs a qualitative approach based on the use of non-directive open-ended interviews, document analysis and ethnographic observation of situations.