Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on July 12, 2013.

Print version c2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

Section I. Clinical principles and practices -- Section II. Infectious agents -- Section III. Biotoxins and Category B and C agents -- Section IV. Chemical weapons -- Section V. Nuclear and radiation syndromes.

Introduction to terrorism and bioterrorism -- A clinical approach to biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorism -- Clinicians' roles in public health preparedness and emergency response -- Environmental terrorism -- Surveillance systems and bioterrorism -- Vulnerable groups: a summary of relevant concerns -- Psychological effects of the BCN threat -- Toxicology and bioterrorism -- Legal and ethical issues -- A brief history of biological weapons -- Introduction to biological agents -- Smallpox (variola major) -- Viral hemorrhagic fevers -- Anthrax -- Plague (yersinia pestis) -- Tularemia (francisella tularensis) -- Introduction to biotoxins -- Botulinum toxin -- Ricin -- Category B and C and additional agents -- Introduction to chemical weapons -- A brief history of chemical weapons -- Pulmonary agents -- Vesicants or blistering agents -- Nerve and incapacitating agents -- Blood agents -- A brief history of nuclear weapons and the atomic age -- An overview of radiation physics and injury -- Introduction to nuclear and radiation weapons -- Radiologic terrorism.

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