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9780230223561: Biosecurity: Origins, Transformations and Practices
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ISBN 10: 0230223567 ISBN 13: 9780230223561
Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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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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Informazioni sugli autori

BRIAN RAPPERT is Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs, Department of Sociology and Philosophy, University of Exeter, UK. His previous books include <em>Experimental Secrets</em>; <em>Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits</em>; <em>Controlling the Weapons of War</em>; <em>Technology and Security</em> (edited).<br><br>CHANDRÉ GOULD is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, South Africa. Her previous books include <em>Secrets and Lies, Wouter Basson and the South African Chemical and Biological Weapons Programme</em>; <em>Hide and Seek: Taking Account of Small Arms in Southern Africa</em> (edited) and <em>Selling Sex in Cape Town: Sex Work and Human Trafficking in a South African City</em>. <br>

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.

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Editore
Palgrave Macmillan
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0230223567
ISBN 13 
9780230223561
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
250
Redattore
Rappert Brian, Gould Chandr
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ISBN 10:  1349308609 ISBN 13:  9781349308606
Casa editrice: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017
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