Pyrrhic Progress

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 foo...

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1. autor: Kirchhelle, Claas
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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-354282025-03-12T01:54:31Z Pyrrhic Progress Kirchhelle, Claas Golden, Janet Apple, Rina D. Anti Bacterial Agents Antibiotic food production United States United Kingdom history legislation drug Drug resistance microbial thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing 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. 2021-02-10T14:26:22Z 2021-02-10T14:26:22Z 2020-03-31 09:38:57 2020-04-01T06:50:13Z 2020 book 1007780 OCN: 1127952391 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22408 9780813591483 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35428 eng Critical Issues in Health and Medicine open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22408/1/Bookshelf_NBK554200.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22408/1/Bookshelf_NBK554200.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22408/1/Bookshelf_NBK554200.pdf Rutgers University Press c7df73af-b7ad-4e0b-8e74-3c629f7e0222 Wellcome Trust d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9780813591483 Wellcome 451 New Brunswick 099372 open access
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Pyrrhic Progress
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