Community at Risk: Biodefense and the Collective Search for Security

by Thomas Beamish

In 2001, following the events of September 11 and the Anthrax attacks, the United States government began an aggressive campaign to secure the nation against biological catastrophe. Its agenda included building National Biocontainment Laboratories (NBLs), secure facilities intended for research on biodefense applications, at participating universities around the country. In Community at Risk, Thomas D. Beamish examines the civic response...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804784426
• ISBN13: 9780804784429
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Stanford Business Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"