The Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance: Lessons from the Past for the Present and the Future
The Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance: Lessons from the Past for the Present and the Future
global perspectives series, economic history, policy briefing
Cormac Ó Gráda, SMF-CAGE Global Perspectives Series: Paper 2, April 2015
Concerns about the threat posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are rising. There have been warnings of a retreat to ‘a health system not dissimilar to the early 19th century’ and of ‘a bleak post-antibiotic future, in which infectious diseases once again reign supreme’.
Economic History