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Pyrrhic Progress : The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Critical Issues in Health and MedicinePublisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2020Description: 1 Online-Ressource (451 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780813591483
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9780813591490. | Erscheint auch als: Pyrrhic Progress : The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production. Druck-Ausgabe New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, ©2020DDC classification:
  • 615.7/922 23
LOC classification:
  • RM267
Online resources: Summary: Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production. Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture. Food producers used antibiotics to prevent and treat disease, protect plants, preserve food, and promote animals’ growth. Many soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. The resulting growth of antibiotic infrastructures came at a price. Critics blamed antibiotics for leaving dangerous residues in food, enabling bad animal welfare, and selecting for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria, which could no longer be treated with antibiotics. Pyrrhic Progress reconstructs the complicated negotiations that accompanied this process of risk prioritization between consumers, farmers, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic. Unsurprisingly, solutions differed: while Europeans implemented precautionary antibiotic restrictions to curb AMR, consumer concerns and cost-benefit assessments made US regulators focus on curbing drug residues in food. The result was a growing divergence of antibiotic stewardship and a rise of AMR. Kirchhelle’s comprehensive analysis of evolving non-human antibiotic use and the historical complexities of antibiotic stewardship provides important insights for current debates on the global burden of AMRPPN: PPN: 1778469760Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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