Biosecurity in the Global Age

by Fidler, David P.

• ISBN13: 9780804750295
• ISBN10: 0804750297
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-03
• Publisher: Stanford Law & Politics

Summary

Biosecuritycomprehensively 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 to challenge the arms control approach, and the book identifies four important policy trends--the criminalization of biological weapons, regulation of the biological sciences, management of the biodefense imperative, and preparation for biological weapons attack. The book also explores the challenges to public health resulting from new security threats. The authors look at the linkages between security and public health policy, both at the national and international level. For instance, Gostin and Fidler scrutinize the difficulty of developing policies that improve defenses against both biological weapons and the threat of infectious diseases from new viral strains. The new worlds of biological weapons and public health governance raise the importance of crafting policy responses informed by the rule of law. Thinking about the rule of law underscores the importance of finding globalized forms of biosecurity governance. The book explores patterns in recent governance initiatives and advocates building a "global biosecurity concert" as a way to address the threats biological weapons and infectious diseases present in the early 21st century.

Author Biography

Lawrence O. Gostin is the Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University. Professor Gostin's latest books are Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (2000), Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (2002), and The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations (forthcoming). David P. Fidler is a Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law. Professor Fidler's latest published books include: International Law and Infectious Diseases (1999), and International Law and Public Health: Materials on and Analysis of Global Health Jurisprudence(2000).

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: The Challenge of Biosecurity in the Twenty-First Century	p. 1
Biosecurity and Biological Weapons
The Problem of Biological Weapons	p. 23
The New World of Biological Weapons Governance	p. 55
Biosecurity and Public Health
The Securitization of Public Health	p. 121
The New World of Public Health Governance	p. 147
Biosecurity, the Rule of Law, and Globalized Governance
Biosecurity and the Rule of Law	p. 187
Globalizing Governance: Toward a Global Biosecurity Concert	p. 219
Conclusion: The Burden and Opportunity of Biosecurity in the Global Age	p. 257
U.S. Government Select Agent List	p. 263
Geneva Protocol of 1925	p. 267
Biological Weapons Convention of 1972	p. 269
Provisions Connected to Human Rights in the International Health Regulations (2005)	p. 275
List of References	p. 277
Index	p. 295
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