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Antibiotic resistance as a tragedy of the commons: An ethical argument for a tax on antibiotic use in humans
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To the extent that antibiotic resistance (ABR) is accelerated by antibiotic consumption and that it represents a serious public health emergency, it is imperative to drastically reduce antibiotic consumption, particularly in high‐income countries. I present the problem of ABR as an instance of the collective action problem known as ‘tragedy of the commons’. I propose that there is a strong ethical justification for taxing certain uses of antibiotics, namely when antibiotics are required to tr...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Bioethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 7
- Pages:
- 776-784
- Publication date:
- 2019-05-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-03-06
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1467-8519
- ISSN:
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0269-9702
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:980212
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uuid:6d180758-05bf-40ad-9a2a-1db5bd008f0d
- Local pid:
- pubs:980212
- Deposit date:
- 2019-03-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Giubilini
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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