UPC: 9783030278762 | Public Health Ethics Analysis: Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health (Paperback)

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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.