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dc.contributor.authorKirchhelle, Claas
dc.contributor.editorGolden, Janet
dc.contributor.editorApple, Rina D.
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-31 09:38:57
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T06:50:13Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T06:50:13Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier1007780
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22408
dc.description.abstractPyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production. Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture. Food producers used antibiotics to prevent and treat disease, protect plants, preserve food, and promote animals’ growth. Many soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. The resulting growth of antibiotic infrastructures came at a price. Critics blamed antibiotics for leaving dangerous residues in food, enabling bad animal welfare, and selecting for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria, which could no longer be treated with antibiotics. Pyrrhic Progress reconstructs the complicated negotiations that accompanied this process of risk prioritization between consumers, farmers, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic. Unsurprisingly, solutions differed: while Europeans implemented precautionary antibiotic restrictions to curb AMR, consumer concerns and cost-benefit assessments made US regulators focus on curbing drug residues in food. The result was a growing divergence of antibiotic stewardship and a rise of AMR. Kirchhelle’s comprehensive analysis of evolving non-human antibiotic use and the historical complexities of antibiotic stewardship provides important insights for current debates on the global burden of AMR.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCritical Issues in Health and Medicine
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursingen_US
dc.subject.otherAnti Bacterial Agents
dc.subject.otherAntibiotic
dc.subject.otherfood production
dc.subject.otherUnited States
dc.subject.otherUnited Kingdom
dc.subject.otherhistory
dc.subject.otherlegislation drug
dc.subject.otherDrug resistance
dc.subject.othermicrobial
dc.titlePyrrhic Progress
dc.title.alternativeThe History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy111d1c48-fc70-44ba-97fa-39be459ee343
oapen.relation.isFundedByd859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd
oapen.relation.isbn9780813591483
oapen.collectionWellcome
oapen.pages451
oapen.place.publicationNew Brunswick
oapen.grant.number099372
oapen.remark.public21-7-2020 - No DOI registered in CrossRef for ISBN 9780813591476


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