Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health
This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats to global public health in coming decades; and it has thus become a major t...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2020.
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2020. |
Series: | Public Health Ethics Analysis,
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Summary: | This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats to global public health in coming decades; and it has thus become a major topic of discussion among leading bioethicists and scholars from related disciplines including economics, epidemiology, law, and political theory. Topics covered in this volume include responsible use of antimicrobials; control of multi-resistant hospital-acquired infections; privacy and data collection; antibiotic use in childhood and at the end of life; agricultural and veterinary sources of resistance; resistant HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria; mandatory treatment; and trade-offs between current and future generations. As the first book focused on ethical issues associated with drug resistance, it makes a timely contribution to debates regarding practice and policy that are of crucial importance to global public health in the 21st century. |
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Physical Description: | XVII, 448 p. 1 illus. online resource. |
ISBN: | 9783030278748 |
ISSN: | 2211-6699 ; |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-27874-8 |
Access: | Open Access |