Publications

  • Davis, M. (2024) COVID-19 immunopolitics, pandemic governance and the communication of scientific knowledge, in Lewis, M. Govender, E. and Holland, K. eds Communicating COVID-19: Media, Trust and Public Engagement, Palgrave, pages 463-479.
  • Davis, M., Schermuly, A., Rajkhowa, A., Flowers, P., Hardefeldt, L. and  Thursky, K. (2024) 'Fragmentation in One Health policy and practice responses to antimicrobial resistance and the salutary value of collaborative humility', Social Theory & Health, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41285-024-00209-2
  • Davis, M., Schermuly, A., Rajkhwa, A. (2024). Antibiotic stories: The sociology of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance final project report April 2024. Monash University. Report. https://doi.org/10.26180/25907422.v2
  • Davis, M., Schermuly, A., Rajkhowa, A., Hardefeldt, L, Thursky, K. and Flowers, P. (2024) 'Risk individualisation and moral injury in the treatment of infection as impediments to the tackling of antimicrobial resistance', Health, Risk & Society. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698575.2024.2345614
  • Davis, M. (2023) The individual in global and national AMR governance, in Rubin, O. Baekkeskov, E. and Munkholm, L. eds Steering Superbugs – The Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance, Oxford University Press, pages 97-110.
  • Whittaker, A., Do, T., Davis, M and Barr, J (2023) AMR survivors? Chronic living with antimicrobial resistant infections, Global Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2023.2217445
  • Lyall, B., Davis, M. Smith, A, Atwell, K. (2023) Antibiotics online: digital pharmacy marketplaces and pastiche medicine, Medical Humanities, 49, 713-724, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012574
  • Whittaker, A., Do, T., Davis, M and Barr, J (2023) AMR survivors? Chronic living with antimicrobial resistant infections, Global Public Health, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2023.2217445
  • Davis, M., Lohm, D., Flowers, P. and Whittaker, A. (2022) Antibiotic assemblages and their implications for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance, Social Science & Medicine, 315, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953622008565
  • Davis, M. (2022) ‘Live with the virus’ narrative and pandemic amnesia in the governance of COVID-19, Social Sciences, 11, 340. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11080340
  • Davis, M. (2022) Selling immunity: Self, culture and economy in healthcare and medicine, Abingdon: Routledge, 156 pages.
  • Davis, M., Lohm, D., Lyall, B, Schermuly, A., Rajkhowa, A., Flowers, P., Whittaker, A. and Lemoh, C. (2021) Promoting Australian general public awareness and action on antimicrobial resistance. Monash University. Report. https://doi.org/10.26180/13101491
  • Davis, M. (2021) ‘Making the ideal real: Biomedical HIV prevention as social public health’, in Aggleton, P., Bernays, S., Bourne, A., Kippax, S. and Parker, R. eds Remaking HIV Prevention: The Promise of TasP, U=U and PrEP, Springer, pages 35-45.
  • Kalam, A., Shano, S., Khan, M., Islam, A., Warren, N., Hassan, M. and Davis, M. (2021) Understanding the Social Drivers of Antibiotic Use During COVID-19 in Bangladesh: Implications for Reduction of Antimicrobial Resistance. PLoS ONE, 16(12): e0261368. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261368
  • Davis, M., Lohm, D., Flowers, P. and Whittaker, A (2021) The immune self, hygiene and performative virtue in general public narratives on antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance, Health: Sage Journals, https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593211046832
  • Broom, A., Kenny, K., Kirby, E., Davis, M., Dodds, S., Post, J., Broom, J. (2021) The modern hospital executive, micro improvements, and the rise of antimicrobial resistance, Social Science and Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114298
  • Davis, M. (2020) Mind the gap: promoting general public awareness and action on antimicrobial resistance, Journal of Pharmacy and Practice and Research, 50(6), 463-464. https://doi.org/10.1002/jppr.1701
  • Davis, M. (2020) Peer review: From universal frames to collective experimentation? Pursuing serious conversations about antimicrobial resistance, Wellcome Open Research, 5:192,  https://doi.org/10.21956/wellcomeopenres.17711.r40734
  • Davis, M. and Lohm, D. (2020) Pandemics, Publics and Narrative, NYC: Oxford University Press, 228 pages.
  • Lohm, D., Davis, M., Whittaker, A. and Flowers, P. (2020) Role crisis, risk and trust in Australian general public narratives about antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance, Health, Risk & Society, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698575.2020.1783436.
  • Davis, M., Lyall, B., Whittaker, A., Lindgren, M., Djerf-Pierre, M. and Flowers, P. (2020) ‘A year in the public life of superbugs: News media on antimicrobial resistance and implications for health communications’, Social Science & Medicine, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953620302513.
  • Davis, M., Lohm, D., Whittaker, A. and Flowers, P. (2020) ‘‘Willy nilly’ doctors, bad patients, and resistant bodies in general public explanations of antimicrobial resistance’, Sociology of Health and Illness, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9566.13111.
  • Davis, M. (2019) ‘Uncertainty and immunity in public communications on pandemics’ in Bjorkdahl, K. and Carlsen, B. eds Pandemics, Publics and Politics: Staging Responses to Public Health Crises, Houndmills: Palgrave, pages 29-42.
  • Whittaker, A., Lohm, D., Leoh, C., Cheng, A. and Davis, M. (2019) ‘Investigating understandings of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in diverse ethnic communities in Australia: Findings from a qualitative study’, Antibiotics, 8, 135, https://doi:10.3390/antibiotics8030135.
  • Dickson, A., Smith, M., Smith, F., Park, J., King, C., Currie, K., Langdridge, D., Davis, M., Flowers (2019) ‘Understanding the relationship between pet owners and their companion animals as a key context for antimicrobial resistance-related behaviours: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis’ Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine, 7(1), 45-61.
  • Langdridge, D., Davis, M., Gozdzielewska, L., McParland, J., Williams, L., Young, M., Smith, F., MacDonald, J., Price, L. and Flowers, P. (2019) ‘A visual affective analysis of mass media interventions to increase antimicrobial stewardship amongst the public; British Journal of Health Psychology, 24(1), 66-87, DOI: 10.1111/bjhp.12339.
  • King, C., Smith, M., Currie, K., Dickson, A., Smith, F., Davis, M., Flowers, P. (2018) Exploring the behavioural drivers of veterinary surgeon antibiotic prescribing; a qualitative study of companion animal veterinary surgeons in the UK. BMC Veterinary Research, 14, 332, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-018-1646-2.
  • McParland, J., Williams, L., Gozdzielewska, L., Young, M., Smith, F., MacDonald, J., Langdridge, D., Davis, M., Price, L and Flowers, P. (2018) ‘What are the ‘active ingredients’ of interventions targeting the public’s engagement with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and how might they work? A review of current evidence’, British Journal of Health Psychology, 23(4), 804-819.
  • Smith, M., King, C., Davis, M., Dickson, A., Park, J., Smith, F., Currie, K., Flowers, P. (2018) ‘Pet owner and vet interactions: exploring the drivers of AMR’, Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, 7:46, 10.1186/s13756-018-0341-1. eCollection 2018.
  • Price, L., Gozdzielewska, L., Young, M., Smith, F., MacDonald, J., McParland, J., Williams, L., Langdridge, D., Davis, M. and Flowers, P. (2018) 'The effectiveness of interventions to improve the public’s antimicrobial resistance awareness and behaviours associated with prudent use of antimicrobials: a systematic review', Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 73(6), 1464-1478.
  • Broom, A., Gibson, A., Kirby, E., Davis, M., and Broom, J. (2018) 'The private life of medicine: Accounting for antibiotics in the ‘for-profit’ setting', Social Theory and Health, 16(4), 379-395.
  • Davis, M., Whittaker, A., Lindgren, M, Djerf-Pierre, M., Manderson, L. and Flowers, P. (2018) ‘Understanding Media Publics and the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis’, Global Public Health, 13(9), 1158-1168. DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2017.1336248.
  • Davis, Mark (2017). ‘"Is it Going to be Real?" Narrative and Media on a Pandemic,’ Symposium on ‘Analyzing narratives across media’ in Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 18(1), Art. 18, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1701187.
  • Broom, A., Broom, J., Kirby, E., Gibson, A. and Davis, M. (2017) ‘Antibiotic optimisation in ‘the bush’: Local know-how and core-periphery relations,’ Health & Place, 48, 56-62.