Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health

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.

• antimicrobial resistance
• public health ethics
• collective responsibility
• infectious disease
• global health
• hospital acquired infection
• animal ethics
• animal epidemiology
• TB resistance and human rights
• TB resistance in developing countries
• privacy and data collection
• ethics and AMR regulation
• ethics of drug development
• antibacterial drug resistance
• infectious diseases

• Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

  Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Michael Selgelid

• Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  Euzebiusz Jamrozik

• Wellcome Centre for Ethics and the Humanities and The Ethox Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  Euzebiusz Jamrozik

Doctor Euzebiusz Jamrozik is a practising physician and bioethics PhD candidate in the Monash Bioethics Centre at Monash University, where he also completed an MA in Bioethics after prior studies in medicine and philosophy at University of Western Australia. His multidisciplinary interests include infectious disease, public health ethics, and epidemiology. Among other topics, his recent publications focus on ethical implications of vaccination, vector-borne disease, human challenge studies, and climate change impact on infectious disease. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) and Member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at Monash University.

Professor Michael Selgelid is Director of the Monash Bioethics Centre and the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.  His research primarily focuses on public health ethics, infectious disease ethics, research ethics, and ethical issues associated with biotechnology and other emerging technologies.  He edits a book series in Public Health Ethics Analysis for Springer and is Co-Editor of Monash Bioethics Review.  Michael earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego.

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