TY  - GEN
T1  - Pyrrhic Progress
A1  - Kirchhelle, Claas
A2  - Golden, Janet
LA  - eng
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-35428
AB  - 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 AMR.
SN  - 9780813591483
KW  - Anti Bacterial Agents
KW  - Antibiotic
KW  - food production
KW  - United States
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - history
KW  - legislation drug
KW  - Drug resistance
KW  - microbial
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
KW  - thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing
ER  -