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  • Bioterror and Biowarfare

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Malcolm R. Dando ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    In an age where anthrax can be produced in a garage and multilateral agreements among nations seem ever harder to reach, the threat of biowarfare could rapidly spiral out of control. In this authoritative guide, international expert Malcolm Dando inspects the evidence rarely made available to the public, providing a comprehensive account of what biological weapons are and their prevalence ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Neuroscience and the Problem of Dual Use

    Neuroethics in the New Brain Research Projects

    by Malcolm R. Dando ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses recent brain research and the potentially dangerous dual-use applications of the findings of these research projects. The book is divided into three sections: Part I examines the rise in dual-use concerns within various state’s chemical and biological non-proliferation regime’s during this century, as well as the rapid technologically driven advances in neuroscience and the ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • The Chemical and Biological Nonproliferation Regime after the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Dealing with the Scientific Revolution in the Life Sciences

    by Malcolm Dando ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers an analysis of how the Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) regime has responded in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Coronavirus has highlighted the need to better protect modern societies from natural, accidental and deliberate disease affecting humans, animals and plants. Within that context preventing the deliberate hostile use of biological and chemical ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Neuroscience and the Future of Chemical-Biological Weapons

    by Malcolm Dando ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    During the last century, advances in the life sciences were used in the development of biological and chemical weapons in large-scale state offensive programmes, many of which targeted the nervous system. This study questions whether the development of novel biological and chemical neuroweapons can be prevented as neuroscience progresses. ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Essentials of Biological Security

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Lijun Shang, Weiwen Zhang, Malcolm Dando ...
    Essentials of Biological SecurityA guide to minimizing the threat of misusing benignly intended and dual-use biological researchIn Essentials of Biological Security: A Global Perspective, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a fundamental resource designed to raise awareness and understanding of biological security as it pertains to the malign manipulation of benignly intended scientific ... Read more

    $131.99 CAD

  • Preventing Chemical Weapons

    Arms Control and Disarmament as the Sciences Converge

    Edited by Michael Crowley, Malcolm Dando, Lijun Shang ...
    The life and chemical sciences are in the midst of a period of rapid and revolutionary transformation that will undoubtedly bring societal benefits but also have potentially malign applications, notably in the development of chemical weapons. Such concerns are exacerbated by the unstable international security environment and the changing nature of armed conflict, which could fuel a desire by ... Read more

    $151.99 CAD

  • Deadly Cultures

    Biological Weapons since 1945

    Edited by Mark Wheelis, Malcolm Dando, Lajos Rózsa ...
    The threat of biological weapons has never attracted as much public attention as in the past five years. Current concerns largely relate to the threat of weapons acquisition and use by rogue states or by terrorists. But the threat has deeper roots—it has been evident for fifty years that biological agents could be used to cause mass casualties and large-scale economic damage. Yet there has been ... Read more

    $112.99 CAD

  • Toxin and Bioregulator Weapons

    Preventing the Misuse of the Chemical and Life Sciences

    by Michael Crowley, Malcolm R. Dando ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores how revolutionary developments and convergence of the chemical, life and associated sciences are impacting contemporary toxin and bioregulator research, and examines the risks of such research being misused for malign purposes. Investigating illustrative cases of dual use research of potential concern in China, India, Iran, Russia, Syria and the USA, the authors discuss how ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Preventing Weaponization of CNS-acting Chemicals

    A Holistic Arms Control Analysis

    by Michael Crowley, Malcolm Dando ...
    Recent advances in neuroscience – the study of the mechanisms within the brain that underlie our behaviours and what happens when these go wrong – have been profound. However, benignly intended neurological research that seeks to understand dysfunction in the central nervous system (CNS) could be misused, for example in the development of novel CNS-acting chemical agent weapons for use in armed ... Read more

    $211.99 CAD

  • The Role of Biotechnology in Countering BTW Agents

    Edited by Malcolm R. Dando, Kathryn Nixdorff, Alexander Kelle ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Biotechnology is vital to counter biological and toxin weapons. Without biotechnology, the detection, identification and diagnoses of, and medical countermeasures to such weapons would be virtually impossible. As biological and toxin agents occur in natural outbreaks of disease or intoxications, there are both civil and military benefit to be had from the use of biotechnology in providing ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Scientific and Technical Means of Distinguishing Between Natural and Other Outbreaks of Disease

    Edited by Malcolm R. Dando, G.S. Pearson, Bohumir Kriz ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    There is increasing concern over the possible use of biological weapons. If they are used, an attack will manifest as a disease outbreak among humans, animals or plants. It is thus important to be able to distinguish between natural disease outbreaks and the result of such an attack. The bok discusses the scientific and technical means available to investigate this question and then goes on to ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Bioterror and Biowarfare

    An Audio Guide

    by Malcolm Dando ...
    Narrated by Dave Courvoisier ...
    Series series Bolinda Beginner Guides

    Unabridged

    7 hours

    Against an uneasy political backdrop of failed agreements and legal loopholes, along with the worrying growth of biological and chemical agents around the world, biological warfare has become a real concern for anyone worried about a future of war and terrorism. Exploring the entire spectrum of chemical and biological threats, Malcolm Dando explains the effectiveness of different agents, and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD