biosecurity

is a response to challenges within weakened public health systems.

Biosecurity is also a response to challenges within weakened public health systems, the 'return of the microbe' in the form of new frightening diseases like SARS and West Nile virus and the ongoing battle against the AIDS epidemic [8]. Biosecurity also extends to political events such as the post-September 11 World Trade Center bombing where biological threats in the form of posted letters contained deadly anthrax bacteria [9]. There emerges, in these aforementioned events, a sense of being threatened, endangered and in dire times, requiring of preventive interventions [10]. Where the dangerous non-human is concerned, it is also depicted as protectable, manageable and controllable. Along the same vein, intervention measures employed to control the spread of H5N1 influenza in Indonesia allow me to analyse how national sovereignty, biosecurity and science interact. (net)

is a set of political technologies that seek to govern biological disorder, in the name of a particular community, through acts that are extraterritorial.

a set of political technologies that seek to govern biological disorder, in the name of a particular community, through acts that are extraterritorial)

is an emerging set of thinking and practices through which the state protects and leverages bioresources by placing constraints on the free market forces.

emerging set of thinking and practices through which the state protects and leverages bioresources by placing constraints on the free market forces.' [6] Aihwa Ong, Introduction. Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate, Duke University Press Durham and London (2010): 40.

is concerned with why security become such a pre-eminent concern.

why has security become such a pre-eminent concern' why is the threat to biosecurity in particular regarded as major to some and insignificant by others' why is focus placed on certain specific potential scenarios of bioterroris attack.. sometimes at the expense of others (Collier, rabinow, lakoff 2004:5).

is engaged with understanding and managing both disease and security in innovative ways.

Biosecurity engages 'new practices and knowledge formations' designed to understand and manage both 'disease and security' in innovative ways [7]. Biosecurity is also a response to challenges within weakened public health systems, the 'return of the microbe' in the form of new frightening diseases like SARS and West Nile virus and the ongoing battle against the AIDS epidemic [8]. Biosecurity also extends to political events such as the post-September 11 World Trade Center bombing where biological threats in the form of posted letters contained deadly anthrax bacteria [9]. There emerges, in these aforementioned events, a sense of being threatened, endangered and in dire times, requiring of preventive interventions [10]. Where the dangerous non-human is concerned, it is also depicted as protectable, manageable and controllable. Along the same vein, intervention measures employed to control the spread of H5N1 influenza in Indonesia allow me to analyse how national sovereignty, biosecurity and science interact. (net)

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biosecurity