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

by Lawrence Gostin and David P. Fidler

Biosecurity comprehensively analyzes the dramatic transformations that are reshaping how the international community addresses biological weapons and infectious diseases.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804750297
• ISBN13: 9780804750295
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Stanford Law and Politics
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"