A brief inventory of concerns in scientific communication

Abstract

Scientific activity is very often associated with the production of answers and sometimes certainties. The proposal here is to bring another perspective to think about the commitments that scientific doing takes. In this context, a central role of scientific journals in our area is to offer knowledge that allows to mobilize ideas for the formulation of original questions, aiming at the investigation and questioning of social situations. TES, which this year turned 20 years old, includes, in collective health, among the journals that fulfill this function, articulating knowledge and questions of the fields of health, education and work.When in dialogue with the world of contemporary work, the look that interests us examines and confronts a reality of difficulties for workers, for the working class. What is up to us as researchers and editors is to promote, encourage questions and investigative paths that remove us from comfort and break with any tendency to naturalize social processes. At the same time, it is also up to us, through knowledge, to call for a commitment to the transformation of the conditions in which processes of suffering, illness and alienation are materialized.They are typical guidelines of collective health, which is guided by the horizon of transformation, but also influences socially significant and contextualized transformations that indicate another commitment that crosses us: looking at Brazil.