BRIVES, Charlotte

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BRIVES, Charlotte
Centre Émile Durkheim [CED]

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Communication dans un congrès avec actes

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Egenis seminar series, 2018-06-11, Exeter.

Résumé en anglais

Bacteriophages (or phages) are viruses that have bacteria as their hosts. Discovered a century ago, and rapidly used as therapeutic agents to treat bacterial infections, they were nevertheless eclipsed by the massive rise of antibiotics from the 1940s onward. Faced with the major public health scourge of antimicrobial resistance, some scientists and physicians are attempting to rekindle and develop therapeutic phages, encountering considerable difficulties along the way. This talk will develop the idea that phage therapy and antibiotic therapy rely on two radically distinct conceptions of infectiology, and of medicine more generally. It traces the way researchers and physicians are actively challenging dominant sociocultural narratives about our becoming with microbes. As such they are engaged in the production of a new narrative about humans, viruses and bacteria, a complex story that invites us to rethink our relationships with microbes, the environment and living things more widely.< Réduire

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humans

microbes

viruses

Phage therapy

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Centre Emile Durkheim - Science politique et sociologie comparatives (CED) - UMR 5116