Ethics and drug resistance : collective responsibility for global public health / Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Michael Selgelid, editors.
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: | Ebook |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Cham :
Springer,
[2020]
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Series: | Public health ethics analysis ;
v. 5. |
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Online Access: | Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
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: | 1 online resource (xvii, 448 pages). |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISSN: | 2211-6680 ; |