Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health

• Other Authors: Jamrozik, Euzebiusz (Editor), Selgelid, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2020
• Series: Public Health Ethics Analysis 5
• Subjects: Bio-ethics; Pharmacology; Infectious & contagious diseases; Bioethics; Drug Resistance; Infectious Diseases; Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics; Medical Microbiology; Internal Medicine; antimicrobial resistance; public health ethics; collective responsibility; infectious disease; global health; hospital acquired infection; animal ethics; animal epidemiology; TB resistance and human rights; TB resistance in developing countries; privacy and data collection; ethics and AMR regulation; ethics of drug development
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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.