@article{ref1,
title="The development of the norm against the use of poison: what literature tells us",
journal="Politics and the life sciences",
year="2008",
author="Moon, Jung-Eun",
volume="27",
number="1",
pages="55-77",
abstract="The use of chemical and biological weapons on the battlefield is considered by most commentators--and by international law--as more abhorrent than the use of nearly all other weapons, including ones meant either to kill secretly or to kill terribly, as do fire or burial alive. I ask why this is so. I explore this question through the study of imagery patterns in Western literature and campaigns against food contamination and environmental pollution. I find that the norm against chemical and biological weapons builds upon a taboo against poisons, a prohibition widely accepted in military manuals as distinguishing soldierly conduct from criminal conduct, especially those forms of conduct made criminal by the employment of treachery, invisibility, and transformation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0730-9384",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}