Even before the anthrax attacks in 2001, public health agencies and partner sectors had begun intensify-ing efforts to detect and respond to the specter of biologic agents used as instruments of terror. The events in 2001 highlighted the substantial pre-paredness gaps and needs in multiple dimensions, particularly the require-ments for coordinating the work of public health and law enforcement, sectors that operate under different jurisdictional confi gurations and legal regimes. This book is written by a law professor who begins by positing the thesis that humanity is vulnerable to bioterrorism because current international legal regimes are inadequate to support preven-tive policies. The author may thus be overly ambitious by attempting to cover this topic on a global scale, rather than through the prism of 1 or a few governance systems
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