Description: India is the center of the global antibiotic resistance crisis. Examining the enormous social and environmental costs of overreliance on antibiotics in India, A World of Resistance shows why embracing culturally relevant forms of health care and education and policies rooted in social solidarity are vital to fixing the problem there and globally.
Brief description: Assa Doron is Professor of Anthropology and South Asia at the Australian National University. He is the coauthor of Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India and The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life.
Review Quotes: Doron and Broom's complex but remarkably accessible and nicely illustrated work makes clear for readers at all levels that the planet's health and their own require transforming conditions that give rise to AMR to restore human microbial balance.--Thomas Davis "Library Journal (starred review)" (1/1/2026 12:00:00 AM)