ArticlePalgrave communications2019
Current accounts of antimicrobial resistance: stabilisation, individualisation and antibiotics as infrastructure.
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102 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- From the lens of early-career researchers: bridging science, technology, arts, and humanities to tackle antimicrobial resistance.Nature communications · 2026Review
- Engaging communities in addressing antimicrobial resistance: Co-producing locally relevant public health messages.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Social science contributions to the global action plan on antimicrobial resistance.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2026Article
- Community engagement to support public health: mixed-method evaluation evidence on COVID-19 attitudes and practices in Lao PDR.Global health action · 2025Article
- Interconnections between the food system and antimicrobial resistance: A systems-informed umbrella review from a One Health perspective.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Review
- Learning From Self-Care Practices Among Marginalised Women: Towards Embedding Health Justice in the UK Health Policy.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
- Application of TiOInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Involvement of community health workers in antimicrobial stewardship interventions and programmes: a scoping review.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Association of factors linked to health inequalities and the risk of antibiotic-resistant infection in high-income countries: a systematic scoping review.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2025Review
- Farmer field schools as interventions to reduce the need for antimicrobials in agrifood systems: a longitudinal analysis of layer farmer field school graduates and non-graduates in Kenya.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2025Article
- Unlocking the Potential of Brazilian Plant Terpenes to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance.ACS bio & med chem Au · 2025Review
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Abstract
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the latest issues to galvanise political and financial investment as an emerging global health threat. This paper explores the construction of AMR as a problem, following three lines of analysis. First, an examination of some of the ways in which AMR has become an object for action-through defining, counting and projecting it. Following Lakoff's work on emerging infectious diseases, the paper illustrates that while an 'actuarial' approach to AMR may be challenging to stabilise due to definitional and logistical issues, it has been successfully stabilised through a 'sentinel' approach that emphasises the threat of AMR. Second, the paper draws out a contrast between the way AMR is formulated in terms of a problem of connectedness-a 'One Health' issue-and the frequent solutions to AMR being focused on individual behaviour. The paper suggests that AMR presents an opportunity to take seriously connections, scale and systems but that this effort is undermined by the prevailing tendency to reduce health issues to matters for individual responsibility. Third, the paper takes AMR as a moment of infrastructural inversion (Bowker and Star) when antimicrobials and the work they do are rendered more visible. This leads to the proposal of antibiotics as infrastructure-part of the woodwork that we take for granted, and entangled with our ways of doing life, in particular modern life. These explorations render visible the ways social, economic and political frames continue to define AMR and how it may be acted upon, which opens up possibilities for reconfiguring AMR research and action.
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