Research framing ethics : ethical issues raised by the duality between "ecohealth" and "eco-epidemiology".

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In the Brasilian Amazonia (Tapajos region), an ongoing applied research program aims at securing the health of small-scale farming populations of the humid tropics through primary prevention regarding two emergent problems related to the deforestation, mercury contamination of the river and the spread of Chagas disease. In 2010, I conducted an ethnographic study to explore the articulation of the ethical and epistemological dimensions of this project. An ethical issue raised during the research concerning the human blood samples tested for Chagas. In this paper, I question this issue by confronting two environmental health research models : the eco-health approach and the eco-epidemiological approach. Clarification of the conceptual tension between the two models helps to understand the ethical issue met by the research team and participants.

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