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Biosecurity in the Global Age : Biological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law.
Title:
Biosecurity in the Global Age : Biological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law.
Author:
Fidler, David.
ISBN:
9780804774475
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (260 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Table of Figures -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION - The Challenge of Biosecurity in the Twenty-First Century -- I. THE UNFOLDING POLICY REVOLUTION OF BIOSECURITY -- II. MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE BOOK -- III. THE CONCEPT OF BIOSECURITY -- IV. THE CONTROVERSIES OF BIOSECURITY -- V. THE CHALLENGES OF BIOSECURITY -- A. Integrating Security and Public Health -- B. Supervising Science for Security and Public Health -- C. Embedding Biosecurity Governance in the Rule of Law -- D. Globalizing Governance for Biosecurity -- VI. STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- Part I BIOSECURITY AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS -- 2 THE PROBLEM OF BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS PROBLEM: INTENSE CONTROVERSY, PROFOUND CONSEQUENCES -- III. STATES, TERRORISTS, AND THE FOG OF BIOSECURITY -- IV. BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS TECHNOLOGIES AND TECHNIQUES -- V. BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS AND ARMS CONTROL: THE DEVELOPMENT AND DILEMMAS OF INTERNATIONAL NORMS ON BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS -- 3 THE NEW WORLD OF BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS GOVERNANCE -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. FOUR TRENDS AND A FUNERAL -- III. THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS -- IV. REGULATION OF THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES -- V. MANAGING THE BIODEFENSE IMPERATIVE -- VI. RESPONDING TO BIOLOGICAL ATTACK: PUBLIC HEALTH AS A NATIONAL SECURITY ASSET -- VII. THE BWC AMIDST THE FOUR GOVERNANCE TRENDS -- VIII. CONCLUSION -- Part II BIOSECURITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH -- 4 THE SECURITIZATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. OVERVIEW OF PUBLIC HEALTH -- III. DISTANT STRANGERS: PUBLIC HEALTH AND SECURITY IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- IV. POLICY WORLDS COLLIDE: A REVOLUTION IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SECURITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH -- V. PUBLIC HEALTH SECURITIZATION AND THE CHALLENGES OF BIOSECURITY POLICY.

VI. CONCLUSION -- 5 THE NEW WORLD OF PUBLIC HEALTH GOVERNANCE -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BIOSECURITY AND PRIORITIZATION IN PUBLIC HEALTH GOVERNANCE -- III. BIOSECURITY, PUBLIC HEALTH GOVERNANCE, AND THE SYNERGY THESIS -- IV. BIOSECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE -- V. BIOSECURITY AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES -- VI. EMERGENCE OF A BIODEFENSE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IN THE UNITED STATES -- VII. CONCLUSION -- Part III BIOSECURITY, THE RULE OF LAW, AND GLOBALIZED GOVERNANCE -- 6 BIOSECURITY AND THE RULE OF LAW -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. WHY THE RULE OF LAW? -- III. A RULE OF LAW PRIMER FOR BIOSECURITY -- IV. BIOSECURITY UNDER THE RULE OF LAW -- V. CONCLUSION -- 7 GLOBALIZING GOVERNANCE - Toward a Global Biosecurity Concert -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. GLOBALIZING GOVERNANCE AS A CROSSCUTTING AND COMPREHENSIVE BIOSECURITY CHALLENGE -- III. THE CRUX OF THE GLOBALIZING GOVERNANCE CHALLENGE -- IV. PROLIFERATION OF GOVERNANCE INITIATIVES RELATED TO BIOSECURITY: LOOKING FOR PATTERNS -- V. BUILDING A GLOBAL BIOSECURITY CONCERT -- VI. CONCLUSION -- 8 CONCLUSION - The Burden and Opportunity of Biosecurity in the Global Age -- ANNEX 1 U.S. GOVERNMENT SELECT AGENT LIST -- ANNEX 2 GENEVA PROTOCOL OF 1925 -- ANNEX 3 BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION OF 1972 -- ANNEX 4 PROVISIONS CONNECTED TO HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (2005) -- LIST OF REFERENCES -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Biosecurity in the Global Age comprehensively analyzes the security threats that biological weapons and naturally occurring infectious diseases pose to societies in the early 21st century. The book explains how these weapons and infectious diseases create security challenges, analyzes each of these threats in detail, and explores the new governance strategies emerging to address these rapidly changing problems.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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