Biosecurity in the Global Age : Biological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law

Stanford University Press

Biosecurity in the Global AgeBiological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law\nAuthor(s): David P. Fidler, Lawrence O. Gostin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford Law and Politics\nISBN-13: 9780804750295, 978-0804750295\nSynopsis\nBiosecurity comprehensively analyzes the dramatic transformations that are reshaping how the international community addresses biological weapons and infectious diseases. \n\n The book examines the renewed threat from biological weapons, and explores the new world of biological weapons governance. Gostin and Fidler argue that the arms control approach in the Biological Weapons Convention no longer dominates. Other strategies have emerged to challenge the arms control approach, and the book identifies four important policy trendsthe criminalization of biological weapons, regulation of the biological sciences, management of the biodefense imperative, and preparation for biological weapons attack. \n\n.