Contextos e negociações: ética em pesquisa etnográfica

Abstract

The municipality of Campinas is recognized for its mental health care network built in partnership with the Dr. Cândido Ferreira Health Service (SSCF). The anthropological literature on research ethics points to a relation of submission of the way of doing ethnography to the biomedical norms that base the evaluation of researches of the human sciences in health institutions. The objective of the article is to show the authorization process for the realization of my field research in the Residential Therapeutic Service (SRT), managed by the SSCF. With this, I present the current problematic about research ethics, the negotiations of the beginning of my field research and how the production of an anthropological knowledge is implied in an ethical relationship with the research interlocutors.