La surveillance comme dispositif-frontière

This paper focuses on the functioning of a surveillance device of resistant bacteria of animal origin, named Résapath. Through a historical and pragmatic analysis, I show how three kinds of actors progressively cooperate with the aim of producing knowledge on antimicrobial resistance risks related t...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicolas Fortané
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances 2015-06-01
Series:Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rac/3355
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This paper focuses on the functioning of a surveillance device of resistant bacteria of animal origin, named Résapath. Through a historical and pragmatic analysis, I show how three kinds of actors progressively cooperate with the aim of producing knowledge on antimicrobial resistance risks related to the use of antibiotics in veterinary medicine. But the involvements of microbiologists, epidemiologists and veterinarians in the surveillance device don’t rest on the same practices and the same objectives. So Résapth produce three ontologies of resistant bacteria that are partly incommensurable and shape ignorance and uncertainties in the governability of such (non)knowledge objects.
ISSN:1760-5393