Breeding Bio Insecurity - How U.s. Biodefense Is Exporting Fear, Globalizing Risk, Making Us

Informationen zum Autor Lynn C. Klotz is senior science fellow with the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Klappentext This book argues that the conditions of research in bioweapons and biosecurity pose a greater risk to health and security of Americans than do bioterrorist attacks, but that this risk can be countered and defeated with greater efforts against infectious diseases and greater international oversight and transparency. Zusammenfassung Offers necessary steps to set us on the path toward true biosecurity. This book argues that true biosecurity will require a multipronged effort based on an understanding of the complexity of the issue, guided by scientific ethics, and watched over by a vigilant citizenry attentive to the difference between fearmongering and true analysis of risk.

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• Authors: Lynn C Klotz, Lynn C. Klotz, Lynn C. Sylvester Klotz, Lynn C./ Sylvester Klotz, KLOTZ LYNN C SYLVESTER EDWARD J, Klotz Lynn C., Edward J Sylvester, Edward J. Sylvester
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780226444055
• ISBN: 978-0-226-44405-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare, United States of America, USA, Chemical & biological weapons, Chemical and biological weapons, Arms negotiation & control, Arms negotiation and control