ABSTRACT
Objective:
this article addresses risk discourse in parental testimonies found on websites of autologous biobanks that store umbilical cord stem cells for cryopreservation, as a cultural artifact.
Method:
the discussion is grounded in the question: how does the rationality of risk and its biological pledge constitute parental statements published on websites that commercialize both the collecting and storage of stem cells from umbilical cord?
Results:
the exhortation of risk discourse is approached, depicting how its prevention is constituted as a mobilizing element for the acquisition of this biotechnology, educating parents to adopt certain health practices related to biosecurity for the future.
Conclusion:
the analyzed parental statements allowed the identification of biotechnology practices that drive and reposition families in relation to health care of children, to avoid risk.
DESCRIPTORES:
Risk management; Technology assessment biomedical; Community health nursing