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Ecologies of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) transmission across One Health interfaces: Waste, food and changing metabolic relations in rural China.

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Τίτλος: Ecologies of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) transmission across One Health interfaces: Waste, food and changing metabolic relations in rural China.
Συγγραφείς: Liu B; Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, 39 Whatley Road, Bristol, BS8 2PS, United Kingdom., Lambert H; Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, 39 Whatley Road, Bristol, BS8 2PS, United Kingdom. Electronic address: h.lambert@bristol.ac.uk.
Πηγή: Social science & medicine (1982) [Soc Sci Med] 2026 Oct; Vol. 407, pp. 119695. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Aug 11.
Τύπος έκδοσης: Journal Article
Γλώσσα: English
Στοιχεία περιοδικού: Publisher: Pergamon Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8303205 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1873-5347 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02779536 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Med Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s): Original Publication: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon, c1982-
Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): One Health* , Drug Resistance, Microbial*, Waste Management/methods ; Zoonoses/transmission ; China ; Humans ; Agriculture ; Animals ; Rural Population ; Anthropology, Cultural
Περίληψη: Within the One Health framework applied to global health issues including antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and zoonoses, ecological linkages between animals, wastes, soil, water, and humans are increasingly being interpreted through the lens of pathogenic transmission. This framing problematises waste practices and cross-species contact in many parts of the Global South, where rural livelihoods are often closely integrated with farm animals and organic materials. In this study, we use metabolic relations as an analytical tool to understand One Health linkages in AMR ecologies, moving beyond transmission pathways. We examine the entangled and often ambivalent relationships surrounding waste, food and environmental health in rural China, where interactions involving these elements are associated with both wellness and harm. Drawing on ethnographic research into everyday agricultural practices and waste management, we explore the tensions between positioning organic wastes as hazardous and metabolic dependencies on them for livelihoods. We show how co-existing governance imperatives for separation and circulation in waste treatment bring into focus the collision between long-standing integrated farming practices and the hazardous inputs of industrial farming. We further illuminate the lived experiences of ambivalent metabolic relations, wherein local communities are caught between material dependencies on subsistence agriculture and exposure to potential toxic fallout from urban-oriented commercial production. We argue that One Health responses to antimicrobial resistance must transcend a narrow focus on hygiene and biosecurity to engage with the latent political-economic configurations of uneven exposure.
(Copyright © 2026 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest There are no conflicts of interest to declare.
Contributed Indexing: Keywords: Agriculture; Antimicrobial resistance; China; Ethnography; One Health; Transmission; Waste
Entry Date(s): Date Created: 20260818 Date Completed: 20260924 Latest Revision: 20260924
Update Code: 20260925
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119695
PMID: 42612449
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