Biosecurity Interventions

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ISBN: 023114606X

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

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.
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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 attem

Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health & Security In Question By A Lakoff

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health Security in Question by A Lakoff Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Concerns About Biosecurity have intensified in response to a number of recent historical events: the AIDS crisis and the rise of quot;emerging diseases quot;; the breakup of the Soviet Union and the discovery of its vast bioweapons program; rapid progress in genetic manipulation; and the outbreak of SARS.

format hardback language english publication year 26 09 2008 series a columbia ssrc book subject medicine subject 2 medicine general title biosecurity interventions global health and security in question author lakoff andrew editor collier stephen j editor publisher columbia univ pr publication date nov 30 2008 pages 307 binding hardcover edition 1 st dimensions 6 25 wx 9 25 hx 1 25 d isbn 023114606 x subject health fitness health care issues brand new hardcover all orders get full access to o

Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question, ISBN-13: 9780231146067, ISBN-10: 023114606X

A Lakoff Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Language English Concerns About Biosecurity have intensified in response to a number of recent historical events: the AIDS crisis and the rise of "emerging diseases"; the breakup of the Soviet Union

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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
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 attem