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The post-antibiotic era: An existential threat for humanity
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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 f... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
medizinische Versorgung; Infektionskrankheit; Risikomanagement; Prophylaxe; Medizinethik; Gesundheitspolitik
Klassifikation
Medizinsoziologie
Medizin, Sozialmedizin
Freie Schlagwörter
antibiotic crisis; post-antibiotic era; existential threat for humanity; global and intergenerational health (care); global and intergenerational (in)justice
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 51-56
Zeitschriftentitel
Intergenerational Justice Review, 8 (2022) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.24357/igjr.8.2.1230
ISSN
2190-6335
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)