Article ID: CBB888554047

The Emergence of Antimicrobial Resistance as a Public Matter of Concern: A Swedish History of a “Transformative Event” (2018)

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This article examines how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) came to be constituted as a matter of public concern in Sweden in conjunction with the development of an inter-professional organization called Strama, founded to promote rational prescription of antibiotics. An outbreak of penicillin-resistant pneumococci in the mid-1990s was crucial for this development, because it brought attention to AMR as an urgent public threat. This outbreak fuelled the constitution of AMR as caused by consumption of antibiotics and as a matter of disease control. As a consequence, Strama was able to mobilize the Swedish health officers responsible for disease control. The outbreak is conceptualized as a “transformative event” – an event that makes an issue and its associated risks concrete and urgent. Transformative events play the crucial role of expediting the transformation of issues into matters of public concern.

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Authors & Contributors
Elizabeth, Hannah J
Monique Santos
Gröndal, Hedvig
Clark, Peder
M. Kemal Temel
Demichelis, Alessandro
Concepts
Public understanding of medicine
Medicine and society
Public health
Vaccines; vaccination
Prevention and control of disease
Antibiotics
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Sweden
Germany
Canada
Istanbul (Turkey)
Kentucky (U.S.)
West Germany
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