Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health
Contributor(s)
Jamrozik, Euzebiusz (editor)
Selgelid, Michael (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
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; Pharmacology; Infectious & contagious diseasesDOI
10.1007/978-3-030-27874-8Publisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/booksPublication date and place
2020Imprint
Springer International PublishingSeries
Public Health Ethics Analysis, 5Classification
Bioethics
Pharmacology
Infectious and contagious diseases