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- Title
Why We Should Reexamine the “Golden Age” of Antibiotics in Social Context.
- Authors
Meagher, Karen M.
- Abstract
Economics is the primary discipline used to understand supply chain design, scale-up, and management. For example, antibiotics can be compared to other forms of “tragedy of the commons,” whereby a common good (effective treatment of infections) is jeopardized by individual consumption and lack of community oversight and stewardship. While economic analysis can explain innovation decline in terms of market failure, one pitfall of an early-stage focus on research and development is a failure to challenge the discovery narrative. Ethics also has a distinct place in helping us envision alternatives to what markets can produce. This article advances a more contextualized view of how science and technology policy has shaped antibiotic supply chains over many years, emphasizing how shifting the story we tell about past successes is central to securing a reliable antibiotic supply chain in the future.
- Subjects
ANTIBIOTICS; SOCIAL sciences; GOVERNMENT policy; SCIENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; ANTIMICROBIAL stewardship; DRUG resistance in microorganisms; TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL ethics
- Publication
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2024, Vol 26, Issue 5, p418
- ISSN
2376-6980
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/amajethics.2024.418