This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats, places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized and interdisciplinary perspectives.

About the authors -- Preface -- US offensive biological warfare program, 1943-1969 / William C Patrick, III -- Introduction: Global biosecurity and the spectrum of infectious disease threats-a networked global approach / Peter Katona, John P Sullivan, and Michael D Intriligator -- Part 1: Assessing The Threats Of Natural And Deliberate Epidemics: -- 1: Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases / Peter Katona and W Michael Scheld -- 2: Biological warfare and bioterrorism: how do they differ from other WMD threats? / Philip E Coyle -- 3: History of bioterrorism, biowarfare, and biocrimes / Peter Katona and Seth Carus -- 4: Food and agricultural biosecurity / Thomas W Frazier -- 5: Economic, political, and social impacts of bioterrorism / Michael D Intriligator -- 6: Technology and the global proliferation of dual-use biotechnologies / Mark Gorwitz -- 7: Catastrophic climate: conflict and environmental security setting the state for humanitarian crises / John P Sullivan -- Part 2: Gaps And Weaknesses In Current Public Health Preparedness And Response Systems: -- 8: Different perceptions, similar reactions: biopreparedness in the European Union / Stefan Brem and Stephane Dubois -- 9: Emerging roles of reserve forces: National Guard roles and mission in domestic biopreparedness / Annette Sobel -- 10: Mitigating crisis through communication / Dan Rutz -- Part 3: Integrated Approaches To Infectious-Disease Preparedness And Response -- 11a: Bioterrorism surveillance / Manfred S Green -- 11b: Role of informal information sources as an adjunct to routine disease surveillance / Marjorie P Pollack -- 12: Public health model for WMD threat assessment: connecting the bioterrorism dots on the local level / Dickson Diamond and Moon Kim -- 13: Integrating local, state, and federal responses to infectious threats and other challenges facing local public health departments / Jonathan E Fielding, Elan Shultz, Noel Bazini-Barakat, Deborah Davenport, Jon Freedman, Robet Mosby, and Robert Ragland -- 14: Vulnerable populations in disaster planning: children are different / Jeffrey Upperman -- 15: Developing a new paradigm for biodefense in the twenty-first century: adapting our healthcare response to the biodisaster threat / Joseph Rosen and C Everett Koop -- 16: Enhancing the role of private industry in biosecurity / Neil Jacobstein -- 17: Towards a global ius pestilentiae: the functions of law in global biosecurity / David P Fidler -- Conclusion / Peter Katona, John P Sullivan, and Michael D Intriligator -- Afterword: Bureaucracy vs bioterror-the losing race / Alvin Toffler -- Index.