Despersonalização da Ciência: técnicas de encantamento da Ciência

The participant observation is a privileged method to study the complexities of science in action, since they are culturally embedded, giving us the possibility to observe the various social agents, as to observe their specific practices. This study follows the investigation made by a psychiatry intern, that aimed at unveiling several social agents, beside the ones revealed at the end of the scientific process. These social agents, as we shall reveal, should not be neglected in the science studies since they make their own agency upon the scientific process. We can say, judging from what happens in a very specific context as is the psychiatric internship in a small psychiatric department, that several social agents, some visible and others hidden, are connected during the scientific process with the goal of answering several necessities, both from the investigators as from the social agents themselves.