Biological threats in the 21st century : the politics, people, science and historical roots
Title By: Lentzos, Filippa [Edited by]
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BookPublisher: London : Imperial College Press, c2016.Description: xxxvi, 463 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781783269471Subject(s): Biological warfare | Biological warfare -- Prevention | Biological weapons | Bioterrorism -- PreventionDDC classification: 358.38 BI OL Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 358.38 BI OL (Browse shelf) | Available | T0056970 |
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| 355.411 GI DE The definitive guide to integrated supply chain management : | 355.425 KI AC The accidental guerrilla : | 358.3 OR GA Organizational behaviour in a global context / | 358.38 BI OL Biological threats in the 21st century : | 358.8 TY AC Accessory to war : | 361 OC OR Organization practice : | 361 ST AC Action research / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Editor's Introduction: Politics, People, Science & Historical Roots (Filippa Lentzos); Crossing the Normative Barrier: Japan's Biological Warfare in China in World War II (Jeanne Guillemin); Past Proliferators: The British, United States & Canadian Biological Warfare Programs (Brian Balmer & John Ellis Van Courtland Moon); Point of View: Open-Air Biowarfare Testing: American and British Experiences (Leonard A Cole); The Soviet Biological Warfare Program (Jens H Kuhn & Milton Leitenberg); Point of View: Life Inside the Soviet Bioweapons Program (Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley); The Iraqi Biological Warfare Program (Tim Trevan); Point of View: Inside Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council (Amy Smithson); Point of View: The Experience of a Bioweapons Hunter (Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack); The South African Biological Warfare Program (Alastair Hay); Point of View: Open Secrets: 'Truth Telling' and Transitional Justice in Revealing Biowarfare Programs (Chandre Gould); Bioweapons in Today's Context: RISE, the Rajneeshees, Aum Shinrikyo & Bruce Ivins (Seth W Carus); Point of View: Inside the Mind of a Bioterrorist (Toby Ewin); Aftershocks of the 2001 Anthrax Attacks (Kathleen M Vogel); Point of View: The Threat of Misuse(Gigi Kwik Gronvall); Searching for Cures or Creating Pandemics in the Lab? (Nancy D Connell & Brian Rappert); Point of View: Dangerous Life Sciences Research (David R Franz); Ebola: From Public Health Crisis to National Security Threat (Nicholas G Evans); Point of View: Building a Sustainable Biodefense Industry (Jacob Thorup Cohn); Quandaries of Contemporary Biodefense Research (Gregory D Koblentz); Biological Disarmament and Non-Proliferation: The Traditional Tools of Biological Arms Control and Disarmament (Marie Chevrier & Alex Spelling); Witness Seminar: Origins of the Biological Weapons Convention (Jeanne Guillemin, Matthew Meselson, Julian Perry Robinson & Nicholas Sims); Interview: Unconventional Weapons and Activist Scientists (Steven Rose & Filippa Lentzos); Point of View: Responsible Science: Strategies for Engaging Key Stakeholders (Jo L Husbands); Non-Traditional Tools: Biological Cooperative Threat Reduction Activities (Ken Myers); Interview: International Security and Counter-Terrorism (Trevor Smith & Filippa Lentzos); Point of View: The Front Lines of Biological Weapons Non-Proliferation (Melissa Finley & Jen Gaudioso); Roundtable: The Future of Biothreat Governance (Iris Hunger, Jez Littlewood, Caitriona Mcleish, Piers Millett & Ralf Trapp);
Biological Threats in the 21st Century offers a fresh understanding of contemporary biological threats to national security.