Social Stigmatization of Pig Farmers: Medical Perspectives on Modern Pig Farming

Carsten Strøby Jensen; Lars Fynbo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90656-0

Social Stigmatization of Pig Farmers: Medical Perspectives on Modern Pig Farming

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This chapter studies the effect of out-spoken critics of Danish pig production on social stigmatization of people in the pig industry, including pig farmers and their families. In Denmark, as well as in most other western countries, the emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has caused a lot of criticism of contemporary pig producers and their perceived neglect of public health. Based on qualitative interviews with pig farmers and scientific experts and stakeholders, this chapter describes how expert knowledge about antimicrobial resistance (AMR) proliferates into sometimes very sceptical public opinions and how those opinions are experienced as stigmatization by the pig farmers and their families.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Risking Antimicrobial Resistance : A collection of one-health studies of antibiotics and its social and health consequences
Editors	Carsten Strøby Jensen, Søren Beck Nielsen, Lars Fynbo
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	1 Jan 2018
Pages	127-141
Chapter	8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-90655-3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-90656-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90656-0
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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Jensen, C. S., & Fynbo, L. (2018). Social Stigmatization of Pig Farmers: Medical Perspectives on Modern Pig Farming. In C. Strøby Jensen, S. Beck Nielsen, & L. Fynbo (Eds.), Risking Antimicrobial Resistance: A collection of one-health studies of antibiotics and its social and health consequences (pp. 127-141). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90656-0

Social Stigmatization of Pig Farmers: Medical Perspectives on Modern Pig Farming. / Jensen, Carsten Strøby ; Fynbo, Lars.
Risking Antimicrobial Resistance: A collection of one-health studies of antibiotics and its social and health consequences. ed. / Carsten Strøby Jensen; Søren Beck Nielsen; Lars Fynbo. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 127-141.

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