Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits: An Inquiry into Research and Methods (New Security Challenges) - Softcover

Rappert, B.

 
9781349280674: Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits: An Inquiry into Research and Methods (New Security Challenges)
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ISBN 10: 1349280674 ISBN 13: 9781349280674
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Synopsis

Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits examines the post 9/11 security implications for life science research as well as the methodological issues associated with conducting social research. In doing so the book considers the place of biological and social research in creating and responding to societal problems.

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About the Author

BRIAN RAPPERT is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs in the Department of Sociology& Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK. His long term interest has been the examination of how choices can and are made about the regulation of technologies in conditions of uncertainty and disagreement. He is the author of Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics, Persuasion and the Prohibition of Inhumanity (2006); Technology and Security (ed., 2007), and A Web of Prevention: Biological Weapons, Life Sciences and the Future Governance of Research (with Caitriona McLeish eds., 2007).

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1349280674
ISBN 13 
9781349280674
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
209

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