Social representations of Biolaw elaborated by nursing and law students

Abstract

This study focuses on the Social Representations of the Biolaw. It was objectified to apprehend the Social Representations of Biolaw and to analyze how these representations links to the quality of the actions developed by Nursing and Law graduation students related to prevention and control of hospital cross infections. Exploratory research developed at the NOVAFAPI College, with 178 students whose had been submitted to the Free Words Association Test and made the Correspondence Factorial Analysis. The Law’ students, had represented the Biolaw as the right to the life, protection to the environment, ecosystem, science and ethics. The students of Nursing had represented the Biolaw as the study of the right, the lawyer as protective of the people, justice, ecology, life, stability, dignity, right of the citizen to have health, justice and ethics. Thus, the Biolaw was related not only with the life and environment, but also with social justice.