Bioviolence : preventing biological terror and crime / Barry Kellman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kellman, Barry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioterrorism.

Bioterrorism--Prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bioviolence is the hostile infliction of disease: our most fundamental terror. Traitors to humanity could inflict vast tolls making everyone potentially vulnerable. Bioviolence is the most realistic way for humanity's traitors to raze the pillars of modern civilization. Too little is being done to prevent bioviolence. While bio-offenders are becoming more focused and organized, prevention policies are vague, gap-ridden, and unsupervised. No other threat presents such severe danger yet such a failure of leadership to reduce risks. The strategy for preventing bioviolence requires a broad international commitment to promote bioscience while understanding its inherent and unavoidable dangers. Bioviolence threats shrink our planet into an interdependent neighborhood. This book explores how global governance should evolve to address challenges of advancing science and technology.

Contents:

Why worry

Methods of bioviolence

Who did bioviolence? Who wants to do it?

Strategic foundations

Complication : what law enforcers should stop

Improving resistance through science

Public health preparedness

International nonproliferation

The challenge of global governance.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-354) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18581-5

1-281-08527-8

9786611085278

1-139-13351-9

0-511-34216-0

0-511-34163-6

0-511-34105-9

0-511-51062-4

0-511-34269-1

OCLC:

476123937