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A Fourth Option for Limiting the Warfare Potential of Medically Useful Toxins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Zsolt P. Harsanyi
Zsolt P. Harsanyi*
Affiliation:
Porton International, Inc., USA
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There is a growing field of medicine today that can be referred to as “therapeutic toxins,” an apparent oxymoron. Substances that are normally thought of as toxins are finding increasing use as therapeutic medicinals. It is this increasing use of toxins in medicine that Jonathan Tucker has raised as an important issue in a recent article in Politics and the Life Sciences (1994).

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Continuing Dialogue: Dual-Use Toxins
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , August 1994 , pp. 265 - 266
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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