Addressing antibiotic use
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Antibiotic Use around the World
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Why is there the need for Fresh Perspectives in antimicrobial resistance research?
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Essential Reading
Bringing you a curated list of the most relevant social science on antimicrobial use in society today. Explore >
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Social science and AMR

How we are contributing to fresh approaches to the study of antimicrobials in society.

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Themes

Explore the research themes that provide the foundation for our work.

Care

How do antimicrobials shape care for people, animals and plants?

Ecologies

AMR requires us to consider how human life is entangled with microbial life, animal life, plant life, and the environment.

Knowledge

How do we make AMR Policy?

Pharmaceuticals and Markets

Antimicrobial use is shaped by the contexts within which they are prescribed, sold and traded.

Commentary

The latest commentary on the use of antimicrobials in society.

05 Jul 2019

Comparison and Collaboration: How can we do things...

Ethnography has always been at the centre of our AMIS research, and ethnographic comparison has always been a significant component...
02 Oct 2019

Quick fix for care, productivity, hygiene and inequality:...

QUICK FIX FOR CARE, PRODUCTIVITY, HYGIENE and INEQUALITY: REFRAMING THE ENTRENCHED PROBLEM OF ANTIBIOTIC OVERUSE by Laurie Denyer Willis and...
03 Aug 2018

Notes from the Field: Urban informal settlement, Kampala

‘We live with risk,’ he tells me, as we weave our way along the railway line that cuts through the...

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People and Projects

Meet the researchers bringing you the latest social science on antimicrobial resistance.

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Essential Reading

Presenting summaries of, and links to, relevant books and journal articles on the topic of antimicrobials in society.

2017
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Antibiotic optimisation in ‘the bush’

Broom et al
2018
journal

Swann Song: Antibiotic Regulation in British Livestock Production (1953–2006)

Claas Kirchhelle
2018
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Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

Arthur Kleinman
2018
journal

Anthropology’s Contribution to AMR Control

Laurie Denyer Willis and Clare Chandler
2017
journal

Tangles of Care: Killing Goats to Save Tortoises on the Galápagos Islands

Paolo Bocci
2017
journal

‘There is worse to come’

Nik Brown and Sarah Nettleton
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