Risking Antimicrobial Resistance: A collection of one-health studies of antibiotics and its social and health consequences

Book Overview

Chapter 1 Risking Antimicrobial Resistance - A one-health study of antibiotic use and its societal aspectsChapter 2 Dealing with explicit patient demands for antibiotics in a clinical settingChapter 3 Antibiotics in France and Italy: A linguistic analysis of policies and practices compared to Danish standardsChapter 4 Talk on cough: symptom, sign and significance in acute primary careChapter 5 To prescribe or not to prescribe' is not the only question: Physician attitudes towards antibiotics and prescription practices in SpainChapter 6 Governing the consumption of antimicrobials: The Danish model for using antimicrobials in a comparative perspectiveChapter 7 My Life as a Pig: MRSA and the Control of Life in Contemporary Pig ProductionChapter 8 Social stigmatization of pig farmers: Medical perspectives on modern pig farmingChapter 9 What is 'good doctoring' when antibiotic resistance is a global threat?Chapter 10 Governing risk by conveying just enough (un-)certainty: Rearticulating good doctoring as a psy-medical competenceChapter 11 The antibiotic challenge: justifications for antibiotic usage in the world of medicineChapter 12 Concluding remarks on 'Risking Antimicrobial Resistance'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030080676
• ISBN13: 9783030080679
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"