Abstract
In this work we analyze changes in the medical field that interrelate with health journalism taking as a reference the Social Studies of Science and Technology (SSST). Our focus is the Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), a set of practices in which clinical studies based on population samples are used for decision making in the medical field. EBM has been incorporated globally, including in Brazil, as part of medical practices, public policies, organizational management and other health frameworks. EBM practices go beyond the production and use of scientific knowledge in medicine. It reaches also activities for knowledge popularization about health and that includes journalism as we could observe in this study. Through interviews, we analyze work processes of journalists to identify relations with the changes brought by EBM. In our analyses, journalism contributes to the public acknowledgement of EBM practices, to comprehend its rationality and also to a critical view on how this knowledge has been built.
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