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Biosecurity

eBook - Origins, Transformations and Practices, New Security Challenges
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
ISBN/EAN: 9780230245730
Umbreit-Nr.: 3353383

Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 0.90 MB
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Einband: Keine Angabe

Erschienen am 29.10.2009
Auflage: 1/2009


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  • Zusatztext
    • This book explores the origins, interpretations and meanings of the term 'biosecurity'. It brings together contributors on issues relating to the perceptions of the threat of biological weapons and how states are responding, or not, to the challenges posed by the potential of the products of the life sciences to be used for destructive purposes.
  • Kurztext
    • This book explores the origins, interpretations and meanings of the term 'biosecurity'. It brings together contributors on issues relating to the perceptions of the threat of biological weapons and how states are responding, or not, to the challenges posed by the potential of the products of the life sciences to be used for destructive purposes.
  • Autorenportrait
    • BRIAN RAPPERT is Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs, Department of Sociology and Philosophy, University of Exeter, UK. His previous books includeExperimental Secrets;Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits;Controlling the Weapons of War;Technology and Security (edited).

      CHANDRÉ GOULD is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, South Africa. Her previous books includeSecrets and Lies, Wouter Basson and the South African Chemical and Biological Weapons Programme;Hide and Seek: Taking Account of Small Arms in Southern Africa (edited) andSelling Sex in Cape Town: Sex Work and Human Trafficking in a South African City.