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Biosecurity: Origins, Transformations and Practices (New Security Challenges)

Description

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.

Keywords

NATIONAL SECURITYTERRORISMLIFE SCIENCES

2009Book

Author(s)Brian Rappert, Chandré Gould

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN9780230223561

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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