GALINDO, Dolores Cristina Gomes.
Résumé:
This article dicusses the use of scientific facts as
argument for a 1999 Brazilian debate about the
legitimacy of an official aids prevention policy. It
seeks to defamiliarized a common aids
argumentative practice which uses a classification
of a scientific public health measure as a main
legitimacy judgement. It is argued that it is
peoples’ negotiations and objects’ mobilization
that gives legitimacy to the implementation of a
prevention estrategy – acccording to a Social
Psicology of science with a construcionist point of
view.
