Communicating biosecurity

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-29

  Briggs, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocommunicability; Biosecurity; Emergency management; Mediatization; Risk and crisis communication

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CIVIL DEFENSE; DISASTER PLANNING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOTERRORISM; CIVIL DEFENSE; COMMUNICATION; DISASTER PLANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 78651285410     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2010.531066     Document Type: Article

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