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Book SynopsisThe fascinating story of Tamiflu's development and stockpiling against global health threats.orld's most prominent medical countermeasure, Tamiflu. A pill can strengthen national security? The suggestion may seem odd, but many states around the world believe precisely that. Confronted with pandemics, bioterrorism, and emerging infectious diseases, governments are transforming their security policies to include the proactive development, acquisition, stockpiling, and mass distribution of new pharmaceutical defenses. What happenspolitically, economically, and sociallywhen governments try to protect their populations with pharmaceuticals? How do competing interests among states, pharmaceutical companies, regulators, and scientists play out in the quest to develop new medical countermeasures? And do citizens around the world ultimately stand to gain or lose from this pharmaceuticalization of security policy?Stefan Elbe explores these complex questions in Pandemics, Pills, and Politics, t
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1. Encapsulating Security
Part I
2. Discovering a Virus's Achilles Heel
3. The Pill Always Wins
Part II
4. What a Difference a Day Makes
5. Virtual Blockbuster
Part III
6. In the Eye of the Storm
7. 'Ode to Tamiflu'
8. Data Backlash
9. 'To Boldly Go'
10. Epilogue
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