Isotope Effects In Chemistry and Biology / Edition 1

by Amnon Kohen, Hans-Heinrich Limbach

Overview

1. The Problem of Securing Health, by Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff
2. From Population to Vital System: National Security and the Changing Object of Public Health, by Andrew Lakoff
3. Redesigning Syndromic Surveillance for Biosecurity, by Lyle Fearnley
4. How Did the Smallpox Vaccination Program Come About? Tracing the Emergence of Recent Smallpox Vaccination Thinking, by Dale A. Rose
5. Disease as Security Threat: Critical Reflections on the Global TB Emergency, by Erin Koch
6. Vital Mobility and the Humanitarian Kit, by Peter Redfield
7. Mapping the Multiplicities of Biosecurity, by Nick Bingham and Steve Hinchliffe
8. From Mad Cow Disease to Bird Flu: Transformations of Food Safety in France, by Frédéric Keck
9. Biodefense: Considering the Sociotechnical Dimension, by Kathleen M. Vogel
10. Anticipations of Biosecurity, by Carlo Caduff
Afterword. Episodes or Incidents: Seeking Significance, by Paul Rabinow
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824724498
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/2005
Pages:	1090
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hans-Heinrich Limbach, Amnon Kohen

Table of Contents

The essays collected here display an extravagant range, depth, and scale of insights, reflections, and explorations covering an extensive array of topics. Chapters cluster around the question of what to make of a burgeoning constellation of experts and the frequently incongruous (or inconclusive) claims to expertise that these experts produce. We learn about a vast range of incidents and episodes. We learn of the ever accelerating expansion of expertise and more expertise and the war-like rumblings of diverse organizational contests over territory and authority. Reading these chapters in and of themselves provides an education. They are instructive about the knowledge-dependence of major sectors of the contemporary world and how these knowledge-dependent sectors interface with and ramify from the micropractices of everyday life as well as strategic global initiatives.

Editorial Reviews

"Kohen and Limbach have produced a massive text that broadly covers the subject of isotope effects in 42 chapters written by experts in the field. Collectively, the chapters demonstrate the very close connection between experiment and theory that is the hallmark of research on isotope effects. …All of the chapters begin with a helpful table of contents, and most have introductory sections that provide excellent background for the subsequent advanced material."
-W. Phillip Huskey, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2006

"Written by internationally recognized researchers from 13 countries, this volume (42 chapters) brings together a wide scope of different perspectives and practical developments and applications into a comprehensive reference of isotope effects that reflect the most current state-of-the-art."

– In Anticancer Research, September/ October 2007, Vol. 27, No. 5A

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