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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Political and Economic Dimensions of Countering BTW Agents and Strenghtening the BTW Control Regime
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Biotechnology in BTW Agent Detection: Underlying Technologies
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Biotechnology and BTW Agent Detection in Different Environments
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The Role of Biotechnology in the Pre-Exposure Treatment of BTW Agents
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The Role of Biotechnology in Diagnosis and Identification of BTW Agents
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The Role of Biotechnology in Protection Against BTW Agents: Post-Exposure Treatment
About this book
The role of biotechnology in countering biological and toxin weapons is here addressed under seven major headings:
- The wider political and economic contexts;
- Enabling technologies for BTW agent detection;
- The applicability of biotechnological methods for BTW agent detection on the battlefield, in a terrorist incident, and in an inspection environment;
- Pre-exposure medical countermeasures;
- Diagnosis and identification;
- Post-exposure treatment and decontamination;
- Contribution of biotechnology to strengthening international conventions against BTW agents.
Editors and Affiliations
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Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Alexander Kelle
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Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK
Malcolm R. Dando
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Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Kathryn Nixdorff
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Role of Biotechnology in Countering BTW Agents
Editors: Alexander Kelle, Malcolm R. Dando, Kathryn Nixdorff
Series Title: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0775-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6905-9Due: 31 March 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6906-6Published: 31 March 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0775-7Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1389-1820
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 336
Topics: International Economics, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Biochemistry, general, Human Genetics