Incapacitating biochemical weapons
Subtitle: promise or peril?
By: edited by Alan M. Pearson, Marie Isabelle Chevrier, and Mark Wheelis.
Contributors: Pearson, Alan M.; Chevrier, Marie Isabelle.; Wheelis, Mark.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780739114384; 9780739114391
Subjects: Chemical arms control.; Disarmament.; Chemical warfare.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Alan M. Pearson, Marie Chevrier, Mark Wheelis; value: Nonconsensual manipulation of human physiology using biochemicals / Mark Wheelis; value: Drug development in the twenty first century and the role of new biotechnologies / Alan Goldhammer; value: Historical military interest in low-lethality biochemical agents : avoiding and augmenting lethal force / Martin Furmanski; value: Late and post-Cold War research and development of incapacitating biochemical weapons / Alan M. Pearson; value: Current and prospective military and law enforcement use of chemical agents for incapacitation / George P. Fenton; value: Scientific outlook for the development of incapacitants / Malcolm R. Dando; value: Potential long-term physiological consequences of exposure to incapacitating biochemicals / Kathryn Nixdorff and Jack Melling; value: Incapacitating chemical and biochemical weapons and law enforcement under the chemical weapons convention / David P. Fidler; value: Toxic chemicals for law enforcement including domestic riot control purposes under the Chemical Weapons Convention / Adolf von Wagner; value: Incapacitating biochemicals and the Biological Weapons Convention / Marie Isabelle Chevrier and James F. Leonard; value: Incapacitating biochemical weapons : risks and uncertainties / Robin M. Coupland; value: International law and the regulation of weapons / Françoise J. Hampson; value: Human rights law and the use of incapacitating biochemical weapons / William J. Aceves; value: Protecting and reinforcing humanitarian norms : the way forward / Peter Herby; value: Conclusion and recommendations / Alan Pearson, Marie Isabelle Chevrier and Mark Wheelis.