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  • Preventing Weaponization of CNS-acting Chemicals

    A Holistic Arms Control Analysis

    Recent advances in neuroscience – the study of the mechanisms within the brain that underlie our behaviours and what happens when these go wrong – have been profound. However, benignly intended neurological research that seeks to understand dysfunction in the central nervous system (CNS) could be misused, for example in the development of novel CNS-acting chemical agent weapons for use in armed ... Read more

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  • Essentials of Biological Security

    A Global Perspective

    Essentials of Biological SecurityA guide to minimizing the threat of misusing benignly intended and dual-use biological researchIn Essentials of Biological Security: A Global Perspective, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a fundamental resource designed to raise awareness and understanding of biological security as it pertains to the malign manipulation of benignly intended scientific ... Read more

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  • The Chemical and Biological Nonproliferation Regime after the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Dealing with the Scientific Revolution in the Life Sciences

    by Malcolm Dando ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers an analysis of how the Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) regime has responded in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Coronavirus has highlighted the need to better protect modern societies from natural, accidental and deliberate disease affecting humans, animals and plants. Within that context preventing the deliberate hostile use of biological and chemical ... Read more

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  • Deadly Cultures

    Biological Weapons since 1945

    The threat of biological weapons has never attracted as much public attention as in the past five years. Current concerns largely relate to the threat of weapons acquisition and use by rogue states or by terrorists. But the threat has deeper roots—it has been evident for fifty years that biological agents could be used to cause mass casualties and large-scale economic damage. Yet there has been ... Read more

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  • Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race

    Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race responds to a growing concern that changes in the life sciences and the nature of warfare could lead to a resurgent interest in chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capabilities. By bringing together a wide range of historical material and current literature in the field of CBW arms control, the book reveals how these two disparate fields might be integrated to ... Read more

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  • Neuroscience and the Future of Chemical-Biological Weapons

    by Malcolm Dando ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    During the last century, advances in the life sciences were used in the development of biological and chemical weapons in large-scale state offensive programmes, many of which targeted the nervous system. This study questions whether the development of novel biological and chemical neuroweapons can be prevented as neuroscience progresses. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Preventing Chemical Weapons

    Arms Control and Disarmament as the Sciences Converge

    The life and chemical sciences are in the midst of a period of rapid and revolutionary transformation that will undoubtedly bring societal benefits but also have potentially malign applications, notably in the development of chemical weapons. Such concerns are exacerbated by the unstable international security environment and the changing nature of armed conflict, which could fuel a desire by ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Bioterror and Biowarfare

    An Audio Guide

    by Malcolm Dando ...
    Narrated by Dave Courvoisier ...
    Series series Bolinda Beginner Guides

    Unabridged

    7 hours

    Against an uneasy political backdrop of failed agreements and legal loopholes, along with the worrying growth of biological and chemical agents around the world, biological warfare has become a real concern for anyone worried about a future of war and terrorism. Exploring the entire spectrum of chemical and biological threats, Malcolm Dando explains the effectiveness of different agents, and ... Read more

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  • Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe

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    This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few ... Read more

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  • Successes And Failures Of Health Policy In Europe: Four Decades Of Divergent Trends And Converging Challenges

    This book will help those involved in health policy making to understand the various successes and failures of health policies around Europe and the complex choices that confront the health systems of Europe. ... Read more

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