Abstract
Biosecurity is a term with a rising currency. New streams of funding, national and international conferences, and policy initiatives are being launched to enhance the state of it. For instance, when the outline for this volume was initially formulated in early 2008, the editors benefited from attending three relevant major international conferences — meetings that indicated the intensifying but simultaneously disputed importance of this notion.
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
References
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation 2008. Federal Funding for Biological Weapons Prevention and Defense, Fiscal Years 2001 to 2008. Washington, D.C. Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
Choffnes E 2002. Bioweapons: New labs, more terror? Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 58 (5): 28–32.
Cooper M 2008. Life as Surplus. London: University of Washington Press.
Coupland R 2005. Modelling armed violence: A tool for humanitarian dialogue in disarmament and arms control. In Alternative Approaches in Multilateral Decision Making. Geneva: UNIDIR: 39–49.
Coupland R 2008. The ‘web’ of prevention. Second International Forum on Biosecurity (Budapest) 31 March.
D’Arcangelis G 2008. Chinese chickens, ducks, pigs and humans, and the technoscientific discourses of global US empire. In B da Costa and K Philip (eds), Tactical Biopolitics. London: MIT Press.
Fidler D and Gostin L 2008. Biosecurity in a Global Age. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Friedman D, Rager-Zisman B, Bibi E and Keynan A 2008. The bioterrorism threat and dual-use biotechnological research: An Israeli perspective. Science and Engineering Ethics, June.
Garfinkel M, Endy D, Epstein G and Friedman R 2007. Synthetic Genomics: Options for Governance. 17 October, Washington, DC: CSIS.
Gaudioso J, Rivera S, Caskey S and Salerno R 2006. Laboratory biosecurity: A survey of the US bioscience community. Applied Biosafety, 11 (3): 138–43.
Gaudioso J and BioInformatics 2006. A Survey of Asian Life Scientists: The State of Biosciences, Laboratory Biosecurity, and Biosafety in Asia. SAND2006–0842 Albuquerque, NM.
Kellman B 2007. Bioviolence: Preventing Biological Terror and Crime. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Knight J 2002. Biodefence boost leaves experts worried over laboratory safety. Nature, 14 February.
Indonesia and Norway 2008. Regional Seminar for South East Asia on Promoting and Implementing Biosafety and Biosecurity Working Paper to the Meeting of Experts of the BWC BWC/MSP/2008/MX/WP.20 14 August.
InterAcademy Panel 2005 IAP Statement on Biosecurity. 7 November Trieste: IAP Available from: http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/includes/IAP_Biosecurity.pdf
Leitenberg M 2005. Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute. Available from: http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?PubID=639
Martin P 2006. Realising the Potential of Genomic Medicine. London: Pharmacy Practice Research Trust.
NRC (National Research Council) 2004. Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
IOM (Institute of Medicine) and NRC 2006. Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of the Life Sciences. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
NRC 2008. The 2nd International Forum on Biosecurity–Summary of an International Meeting Budapest, Hungary March 30 to April 2, 2008. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
Nelkin D and Lindee M 1995. The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon. 2nd ed. New York: WH Freeman.
Nightingale P and Martin P 2004. The myth of the biotech revolution. TRENDS in Biotechnology, 22 (11): 564–9.
Rappert B 2008. The benefits, risks, and threats of biotechnology. Science and Public Policy, February 35 (1): 37–44.
Rhodes C 2007. Genomics Monitor, Issue No. 5 November Bradford: University of Bradford.
Rogers M, Amlot R, Rubin G, Wessely S and Krieger, K 2007. Mediating the social and psychological impacts of terrorist attacks. The International Review of Psychiatry, 19 (3).
Salerno R and Gaudioso J 2007. Laboratory Biosecurity Handbook. Atlanta: CDC Press.
Schuler A 2005. Billions for biodefense. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, 3(2): 94–101.
Science 2005. Detente declared on NIH biodefense funding. Science, 13 May: 938.
Singer P and Daar A 2001. Harnessing genomics and biotechnology to improve global health equity. Science, 294: 87–9.
Steyn B 2008. Biotechnology and biorisk in Africa. At ‘Promoting Biosafety and Biodiversity within the Life Sciences: An International Workshop in East Africa’, 11 March Kampala.
Sunshine Project 2004. Institutional Biosafety Committee Transparency Survey. Austin, TX: Sunshine Project. Available from: http://www.sunshine-project.org/biodefense/initialreplydata.html
UNAS (Uganda National Academy of Sciences) 2008. Promoting Biosafety and Biosecurity Within the Life Sciences: An International Workshop in East Africa. 11–12 March. Kampala: UNAS.
US (United States) 2008. Pathogen Safety and Pathogen Security: Assistance Efforts of the United States. Working Paper to the Meeting of Experts of the BWC BWC/MSP/2008/MX/WP.2, 30 July.
WHO (World Health Organisation) 2006. Biorisk Management: Laboratory Biosecurity Guidance. September, Geneva: WHO.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2009 Brian Rappert
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Rappert, B. (2009). The Definitions, Uses, and Implications of Biosecurity. In: Rappert, B., Gould, C. (eds) Biosecurity. New Security Challenges Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245730_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245730_1
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-30861-3
Online ISBN: 978-0-230-24573-0
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies CollectionPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)