Book description
Local Planning for Terror and Disaster
gives voice to experts in key fields involved with local preparedness,
assessing the quality of preparedness in each field, and offering
directions for improvement. Introductory chapters provide overviews of
terror medicine, security and communications, which are indispensable to
successful preparedness, while subsequent chapters concentrate on a
particular field and how responders from that field communicate and
interact with others during and after an event. Thus, a chapter by a
physician discusses not only the doctor's role but how that role is, or
should be, coordinated with emergency medical technicians and
police. Similarly, chapters by law enforcement figures also review
police responsibilities and interactions with nurses, EMTs, volunteers
and other relevant responders.
Developed from topics at recent
Symposia on Terror Medicine and Security, Local Planning also
encompasses aspects of emergency and disaster medicine, as well as
techniques for diagnosis, rescue, coordination and security that are
distinctive to a terrorist attack. Each chapter also includes a case
study that demonstrates preparedness, or lack thereof, for a real or
hypothetical event, including lessons learned, next steps, and areas
for improvement in this global era which increasingly calls for
preparedness at a local level.
Dr. Leonard Cole
is an adjunct professor of political science at Rutgers
University-Newark, NJ, and director of the Program on Terror Medicine
and Security at UMDNJ's Center for BioDefense. He has published widely
on terrorism-related subjects including chapters in two recent Wiley
volumes:
Suicide Terror
and
Bacillus Anthracis and Anthrax
. His most recent books are
The Anthrax Letters
(revised edition, 2009) and
Essentials of Terror Medicine
(co-editor, 2009). A full list of works by Dr. Cole is available on his
website www. leonardcole. com.
Dr. Nancy Connell is professor of infectious disease at the
Medical School of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New
Jersey. She is director of UMDNJ's Center for BioDefense, has
authored numerous scientific articles, and has served on national and
regional panels concerning biosecurity. Currently, she is a member of
the National Academy of Sciences committee on the "Review of the
Scientific Approaches Used by the FBI During Its Investigation of the
2001 Anthrax Mailings."
