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Title:

Bioinsecurity and vulnerability / edited by Nancy N. Chen and Lesley A. Sharp.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

School for Advanced Research Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxxiii, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Subject:

Biosecurity.
Human security.

Other Authors:

Chen, Nancy N., editor of compilation. editor of compilation.
Sharp, Lesley Alexandra, editor of compilation. editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : bioinsecurity and human vulnerability / Lesley A. Sharp and Nancy N. Chen -- Preempting biosecurity : threats, fantasies, futures / Joseph Masco -- When a country becomes a military base : blowback and bioinsecurity in Honduras, the world's most dangerous place / David Vine -- Perils before swine : bioinsecurity and scientific longing in experimental xenotransplantation research / Lesley A. Sharp -- Biosecurity in the age of genetic engineering / Glenn Davis Stone -- Between abundance and insecurity : securing food and medicine in an age of Chinese biotechnology / Nancy N. Chen -- Global water security and the demonization of q♯t : the new water governmentality and developing countries like Yemen / Steven C. Caton -- Don't let the lion tell the giraffe's story : law, violence, and ontological insecurities in Ghana / Carolyn Rouse -- Resilience as a way of life : biopolitical security, catastrophism, and the food-climate change question / Michael J. Watts -- Bioinsecurity, gender, and HIV/AIDS in South Africa / Ida Susser -- Domestic organ trafficking : between biosecurity and bioviolence / Monir Moniruzzaman.

Series:

School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series

ISBN:

1938645421 (alk. paper)
9781938645426 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)881518431

LCCN:

2014010175

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)