Biosecurity : origins, transformations and practices /

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Imprint:Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Description:xiv, 250 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:New security challenges series
New security challenges series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7913724
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Other authors / contributors:Rappert, Brian.
Gould, Chandrʹe.
ISBN:9780230223561 (hardback)
0230223567 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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"--Provided by publisher.

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