Ethics and drug resistance : : collective responsibility for global public health / / editors, Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Michael Selgelid.

• Superior document: Public Health Ethics Analysis, 5
• Author: Giubilini, Alberto
• HerausgeberIn: Jamrozik, Euzebiusz.; Selgelid, Michael J.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st edition 2020.
• Language: English
• Series: Public Health Ethics Analysis, 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVII, 448 p. 1 illus.)
• ISBN: 3030278743
• ISSN: 2211-6680
• Access: Open Access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: editors, Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Michael Selgelid.

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.