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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.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Definitions, Uses, and Implications of Biosecurity
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Biosecurity in the International Arena
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In Comparison
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
BRIAN RAPPERT is Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs, Department of Sociology and Philosophy, University of Exeter, UK. His previous books include Experimental 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 include Secrets 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) and Selling Sex in Cape Town: Sex Work and Human Trafficking in a South African City.
CHANDRÉ GOULD is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, South Africa. Her previous books include Secrets 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) and Selling Sex in Cape Town: Sex Work and Human Trafficking in a South African City.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biosecurity
Book Subtitle: Origins, Transformations and Practices
Editors: Brian Rappert, Chandré Gould
Series Title: New Security Challenges
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245730
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22356-1Published: 29 October 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24573-0Published: 29 October 2009
Series ISSN: 2731-0329
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0337
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 250
Topics: International Relations, Military and Defence Studies, Biotechnology, Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education, Life Sciences, general, Political Science