O acesso e a proteção do conhecimento tradicional associado, no âmbito da Política Nacional de Plantas Medicinais e Fitoterápicas (PNPMF) : um estudo de suas determinações e contradições no contexto do novo imperialismo

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Guimarães, Ingrid Mendes
• Orientador(a): Aranha, Maria Lúcia Machado
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Plantas medicinais; Conhecimento tradicional associado; Políticas públicas; Estado; Capital
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Medicinal plants; Associated traditional knowledge; Public policies; State; Capital
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/6206

The theme of this research is the access and the protection of the associated traditional knowledge (CTA) and its main objective is to analyze the access end the protection of the CTA to medicinal plants, in the context of the National Policy of Medicinal Plants and Herbal Remedies (PNPMF), only Brazilian public policy that deals with the recognition and strengthening of the use of medicinal plants in the sphere of the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS). To achieve this goal to pinpoint the following specific objectives: to elucidate the role of the capitalist State; understand the functionality of public policy in capitalism; understand the relationship between the accumulation of capital in the context of the new imperialism and the monopolization of the CTA to medicinal plants; grasp the dynamics of social struggles generated around access to and protection of the CTA to medicinal plants; analyse the legal provisions dealing with access to and protection of the CTA; understand how the PNPMF addresses the issue of access to and protection of the CTA to medicinal plants. We feel it is important to seize the determinations and the contradictions that pervade the thematic access to and protection of the CTA to medicinal plants, because the institutional recognition of this herbal remedies use, conversely, it comes contributing for the increasing vulnerability of that CTA to medicinal plants in relation to the interests of capital. To this end, we conducted a qualitative research, documentary-type, based on historical dialetic materialism. The theoretical framework consists of the following categories of analysis: State, civil society, hegemony, public policy, capital, traditional knowledge. The documents used as sources of data were the PNPMF and the official, national and international devices, dealing with access and the protection of the traditional knowledge associated to biodiversity. Abstracts were conducted and systematization of such documents for further analysis, subjecting them thoroughly to the categories of relevant analyses for the study. We conclude that PNPMF is a Brazilian State mediation, regarding CTA´s access to medicinal plants, serving, mostly, to the interests of capital, using the bourgeois economic and developmental discourse, reinforcing the core functionality of public policy in capitalism, in this case, ensure their accumulation and expanded reproduction, favoring thus the strengthening of pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry and putting this knowledge to the needs of the market.