Full Description
The societal consequences of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are severe. They include declining health outcomes from longer illnesses, prolonged stays in hospital, loss of protection for patients undergoing medical procedures, increased health care expenditure, and increased mortality. They also include declining global food security as AMR damages farm animal health and crop yields. Despite AMR being a transboundary crisis, concerted global initiatives that effectively combat AMR have been few and far between.
Steering Against Superbugs analyses ways to reduce barriers and create opportunities for coordination. The expert contributions in this volume offer specific and original insights about what global governance of AMR means, and ways to help solve AMR issues. They show that effective governance relies crucially on pursuing local level implementation of key policies, and equitable recognition of solutions across multiple sectors within countries, and across the Global North and South.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, societies across the world have been reminded of the devastating consequences of not being able to effectively counter global health threats. AMR is arguably one of the most severe long-term threats to human, animal, and environmental health. There is momentum for global political action around novel and emerging disease threats and Steering Against Superbugs contributes with original and insightful research to inform ongoing and future debates.
Contents
1: Steering against Superbugs: Research agenda and four perspectives for global governance
Part I: Framing and conceptualizing AMR
2: Pills and Politics - a historical analysis of international antibiotic regulation since 1945
3: Global eradicationism and AMR
4: Conceptualizing AMR as a creeping disaster in terms of pace and space
Part II: Coordination and leadership in AMR governance
5: Combatting AMR in the EU - governmental dimensions
6: Contested governance of collective action against AMR in the EU
7: What would it take to move the global AMR agenda forward in the Global South?
Part III: AMR Governance from below
8: The individual in global and national AMR governance
9: Governing AMR: a case for considering governance
10: A sociological look beyond the surface of the national action plans against AMR: How state professionals adjust to global governance
Part IV: A One Health Perspective on AMR
11: One Health and AMR governance
12: From policy to practice: Challenges and opportunities for cross-sectoral AMR mitigation and response efforts
13: Joint action against AMR with a One Health perspective
Part V: Global advocacy and awareness of AMR
14: Policy entrepreneurship and problem brokering in the global governance of AMR
15: Global attention to Antimicrobial Resistance and Climate Change in the era of Social Media
16: The policy context for responses to antimicrobial resistance in India
Part VI: Regulatory responses to AMR
17: A case for the global governance of AMR by regulating the pharmaceutical supply chain
18: Sustainable procurement of pharmaceuticals - a tool to combat global antimicrobial resistance
19: International Law and AMR: Learning from 15 years implementing the International Health Regulations
