TY  - GEN
AU  - Giubilini,Alberto
AU  - Savulescu,J.
TI  - Chapter 9 Moral Responsibility and the Justification of Policies to Preserve Antimicrobial Effectiveness
SN  - 978-3-030-27874-8_9
PY  - 2020///
PB  - Springer Nature
KW  - Bio-ethics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Bioethics · Public health ethics · Antimicrobial resistance · Collective responsibility · Easy rescue
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Restrictive policies that limit antimicrobial consumption, including therapeutically  justified use, might be necessary to tackle the problem of antimicrobial  resistance. We argue that such policies would be ethically justified when forgoing  antimicrobials constitutes a form of easy rescue for an individual. These are cases  of mild and self-limiting infections in otherwise healthy patients whose overall  health is not significantly compromised by the infection. In such cases, restrictive  policies would be ethically justified because they would coerce individuals into fulfilling  a moral obligation they independently have. However, to ensure that such  justification is the strongest possible, states also have the responsibility to ensure  that forgoing antimicrobials is as easy as possible for patients by implementing  adequate compensation measures
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/0853d4fe-64f9-471a-aa60-13f559241407/Bookshelf_NBK566842.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47726
ER  -