Keywords
Soziologie, AnthropologieMedizin und Gesundheit
Sociology & anthropology
Medicine and health
antibiotic crisis; post-antibiotic era; existential threat for humanity; global and intergenerational health (care); global and intergenerational (in)justice
Medizinsoziologie
Medizin, Sozialmedizin
Medical Sociology
Medicine, Social Medicine
medizinische Versorgung
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https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/88864https://doi.org/10.24357/igjr.8.2.1230
Abstract
Currently, mankind is facing the risk of running out of working antibiotics. Such a post-antibiotic era bears tremendous risks such as globally spread or even pandemic bacterial infections. These infections become thus untreatable and possibly lethal, particularly endan-gering the health (care) of future generations. This paper discusses this acute concern for humanity in three main steps. After first elaborating on the role of antibiotics and the occur-ring resistance in modern medicine, the focus will be on the current scope of the problem of antibiotics and the prognosis of its future escalation. Then the possibility of a way out and its obstacles will be addressed, before finally assessing the existential threat of a post-antibiotic era.Date
2023-09-01Type
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oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/888642190-6335
https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/88864
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-88864-9
https://doi.org/10.24357/igjr.8.2.1230