The Antibiotic Challenge: Justifications for Antibiotic Usage in the World of Medicine

Kim Sune Jepsen; Inge Kryger Pedersen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90656-0_11

The Antibiotic Challenge: Justifications for Antibiotic Usage in the World of Medicine

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This chapter is a micro-sociological exploration of the justifications that Danish general practitioners adopt to support antibiotic usage in their clinical practices. Based on qualitative in-depth interviews with 21 general practitioners in Denmark, the chapter looks upon the clinic as a particular social world (a justificatory regime) in which different antibiotic treatment strategies are qualified and justified in regard to moral and societal concerns. The chapter demonstrates how the medical application of antibiotics is accompanied by different justifications concerned with efficiencies, general civic interests, localized knowledge and more pervasive ‘green issues’ linked to how to secure sustainable societal usage through political intervention.

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
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	1 Jan 2018
Pages	183-198
Chapter	11
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_11
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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Jepsen, K. S., & Pedersen, I. K. (2018). The Antibiotic Challenge: Justifications for Antibiotic Usage in the World of Medicine. In C. S. Jensen, S. B. Nielsen, & L. Fynbo (Eds.), Risking Antimicrobial Resistance: A collection of one-health studies of antibiotics and its social and health consequences (pp. 183-198). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90656-0_11

The Antibiotic Challenge: Justifications for Antibiotic Usage in the World of Medicine. / Jepsen, Kim Sune ; Pedersen, Inge Kryger.

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. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 183-198.

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