Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question (A Columbia / SSRC Book) Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 2008-10-21
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 023114606X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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In recent years, new disease threats—such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis—have garnered media attention and galvanized political response. Proposals for new approaches to "securing health" against these threats have come not only from public health and medicine but also from such fields as emergency management, national security, and global humanitarianism. This volume provides a map of this complex and rapidly transforming terrain. The editors focus on how experts, public officials, and health practitioners work to define what it means to "secure health" through concrete practices such as global humanitarian logistics, pandemic preparedness measures, vaccination campaigns, and attempts to regulate potentially dangerous new biotechnologies.As the contributions show, despite impressive activity in these areas, the field of "biosecurity interventions" remains unstable. Many basic questions are only beginning to be addressed: Download Biosecurity Interventions for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Containing and Preventing Biological Threats (Butterworth-Heinemann Homeland Security)

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Edition: 1
Release: 2008-03-20
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0750684895
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Biosecurity and Bioterrorism is the first book to take a holistic approach to biosecurity with coverage of pathogens, prevention and response methodology. The book is organized into four thematic sections: Part I provides a conceptual understanding of biowarfare, bioterrorism and the laws we have to counteract this; Part II investigates known bioagents and the threat from emerging diseases; Part III focuses on agricultural terrorism and food security; Part IV outlines international, US, and local initiatives for biodefense and biosecurity. Case studies illustrate biodefense against both intentional terrorism and natural outbreaks.

The authors bring an extraordinary combination of experience in academia and the clinical world, as well as real-world experience in technical and practical matters, to their writing. They make technical material clear and fascinating for readers with a basic knowledge of biology. Ryan and Glarum address the hazards in the context of vulnerability ass Download Biosecurity and Bioterrorism for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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