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Biosecurity Dilemmas: Dreaded Diseases, Ethical Responses, and the Health of Nations
Christian Enemark
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Description for Biosecurity Dilemmas: Dreaded Diseases, Ethical Responses, and the Health of Nations
Paperback. Biosecurity encompasses both the natural occurrence of deadly disease outbreaks and the use of biological weapons. This book examines conflicting values and interests in the practice of "biosecurity," the safeguarding of populations against infectious diseases through security policies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 tables, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JPS; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
Biosecurity Dilemmas examines conflicting values and interests in the practice of biosecurity, the safeguarding of populations against infectious diseases through security policies. Biosecurity encompasses both the natural occurrence of deadly disease outbreaks and the use of biological weapons. Christian Enemark focuses on six dreaded diseases that governments and international organizations give high priority for research, regulation, surveillance, and rapid response: pandemic influenza, drug-resistant tuberculosis, smallpox, Ebola, plague, and anthrax. The book is organized around four ethical dilemmas that arise when fear causes these diseases to be framed in terms of national or international security: protect or proliferate, secure ... Read more
Biosecurity Dilemmas examines conflicting values and interests in the practice of biosecurity, the safeguarding of populations against infectious diseases through security policies. Biosecurity encompasses both the natural occurrence of deadly disease outbreaks and the use of biological weapons. Christian Enemark focuses on six dreaded diseases that governments and international organizations give high priority for research, regulation, surveillance, and rapid response: pandemic influenza, drug-resistant tuberculosis, smallpox, Ebola, plague, and anthrax. The book is organized around four ethical dilemmas that arise when fear causes these diseases to be framed in terms of national or international security: protect or proliferate, secure ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
316g
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781626164048
SKU
V9781626164048
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About Christian Enemark
Christian Enemark is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. He is the author of two previous books, Disease and Security: Natural Plagues and Biological Weapons in East Asia and Armed Drones and the Ethics of War: Military Virtue in a Post-Heroic Age, and he is also coeditor of Ethics and Security Aspects of ... Read more
Reviews for Biosecurity Dilemmas: Dreaded Diseases, Ethical Responses, and the Health of Nations
This seminal work of outstanding scholarship . . . is a timely, extraordinary, and impressively informative addition to both community and academic library Bioethics & International Affairs collections.
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