Team:Montpellier/IntegratedhumanPractices
INTEGRATED HUMAN PRACTICES
The question raised by Phagent in its integration in the society is its acceptance. How would people react in front of a treamtment involving viruses? Would they understand that phages are not harmful for humans? Would this raise an OGM ethical question? Does the implication of a serious disease change minds concerning those subjects? More generally, the issue is about acceptance of new technologies in medicine.
We didn't want to stay at our own thought and wanted to confront our ideas to the society. We decided to do a survey with a different approach than usual. We wanted to ask good questions, so we learned about how to ask question, how to approach people in this kind of survey. For this we asked for the help from a psychologist who works in this field, who already conducted surveys about science. The psychologist's name is Florence Cousson-Gellie. (The goal of our survey is to know if the new generation like ours will agree to use a new technology like Phagent, we know that if one day it will be in the market, it will be in several years, when our generation will be older.) Like we said before, this survey treats all the aspects of our project, GMO, viruses and specifically cancer.
