When sharing in an uncritical manner the same precepts of biopolitics, bioethics can become a legitimating device of scientific praxis overseen by reifying the subject. In this text, we will cover these arguments, seeking to demonstrate the critical function that psychoanalysis can have in this issue. It deals with highlighting, in the juxtaposition between science and politics, the manner by which the subject in science is considered - such as psychoanalysis proposes - allowing an alternative way of discussing ethics in research praxis.
bioethics; biopolitics; psychoanalysis; subject of science