TY - JOUR

T1 - Antimicrobial resistance in the risk society

T2 - a Danish study on how veterinarians and human medical doctors construct risk through blaming

AU - Jensen, Carsten Strøby

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - This article deals with risk and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR is considered to be one of the major global public health threats in the twenty-first century. This article applies the ideas of Ulrich Beck and Mary Douglas about the relation between risk and blame to competing discourses about AMR. AMR is closely connected to the use of antimicrobials in livestock production and for preventing/treating human infection. Using qualitative interviews with professionals from the human medical sector and the agricultural sector in Denmark, the article shows how representatives from the two sectors frame and construct AMR risks by blaming each other. Our study shows how experts within the human medical and veterinarian fields construct their own risk assessments in relation to AMR by making claims that shift blame to the other sector. They create a distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them’ and a kind of ‘otherness’ that is used to identify risky behaviour and the overuse of antimicrobials.

AB - This article deals with risk and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR is considered to be one of the major global public health threats in the twenty-first century. This article applies the ideas of Ulrich Beck and Mary Douglas about the relation between risk and blame to competing discourses about AMR. AMR is closely connected to the use of antimicrobials in livestock production and for preventing/treating human infection. Using qualitative interviews with professionals from the human medical sector and the agricultural sector in Denmark, the article shows how representatives from the two sectors frame and construct AMR risks by blaming each other. Our study shows how experts within the human medical and veterinarian fields construct their own risk assessments in relation to AMR by making claims that shift blame to the other sector. They create a distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them’ and a kind of ‘otherness’ that is used to identify risky behaviour and the overuse of antimicrobials.

KW - AMR

KW - framing

KW - medicine

KW - risk

KW - veterinarians

KW - AMR

KW - framing

KW - medicine

KW - risk

KW - veterinarians

U2 - 10.1080/13698575.2023.2251542

DO - 10.1080/13698575.2023.2251542

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85169152504

VL - 26

SP - 75

EP - 92

JO - Health, Risk and Society

JF - Health, Risk and Society

SN - 1369-8575

IS - 1-2

ER -