This event will discuss the book: "American Anthrax: Fear, crime, and the investigation of the nation's deadliest bioterror attack" by Jeanne Guillemin, Senior Advisor to the MIT Security Studies Program.
Location: MIT Bldg E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
More details and map to event:
http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_111711_anthrax.html
Books will be sold and signed at the event.
About the author: Jeanne Guillemin’s training in sociology and anthropology has led to her involvement in issues regarding infectious diseases and biological weapons. She is the author of Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak (University of California Press, 1999), which documents the inquiry into the controversial cause of the 1979 Sverdlovsk anthrax outbreak. Her next book was Biological Weapons: The History of State-sponsored Programs and Contemporary Bioterrorism (Columbia University Press, 2005). She has been a delegate to the annual Pugwash Working Group on the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions, has taught in the SSP course, “Confronting Bioterrorism,” and is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on WMD. Her latest book is American Anthrax: Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation's Deadliest Bioterrorist Attack (Macmillan/Henry Holt, 2011).
Co-sponsored by the Security Studies Program and the Center for International Studies
