Risking Antimicrobial Resistance (eBook)

Carsten Strøby Jensen is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Søren Beck Nielsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lars Fynbo is a researcher at VIVE—The Danish Centre for Social Science Research, Denmark.

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’.