Abstract
The purpose of this article is to understand and compare the issues related to procedural ethics in France and Brazil, using a socio-historical approach and our experiences. The comparison shows the same disciplinary tension between social and biomedical sciences. In both countries we can see a deliberate policy to regulate the research ethically. In France, contrary to Brazil, the spread of procedural ethics is not completed yet. Procedural ethics characterized by a normative, formal dimension that standardizes the way of thinking, or rather the research. Faced with antagonistic logics, the researchers are strongly tempted to get round the procedures.
Procedural ethics; social sciences; Brazil; France
