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

by Dr Brian Rappert (Editor), Dr Chandré Gould (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $115.52

  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.