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Dual-Use Bioethics: The Nuclear Connection
Research Report for the Wellcome Trust Project on `Building a Sustainable Capacity in Dual-use Bioethics` By Nicholas Evans The dual-use dilemma occurs when research or technology may be used to ben- efit or harm humanity. This dilemma has become a pressing concern in the life sciences. Rapid advances in the understanding of the neurological, cognitive, Read More »
When Dual Use Issues Are So Abundant, Why Are Dual Use Dilemmas So Rare?
Research Report for the Wellcome Trust Project on `Building a Sustainable Capacity in Dual-use Bioethics` By Jim Whitman It is widely acknowledged that twenty-first century life science research presents numerous dual use issues – that much of the benign potential of new advances in the life sciences can also be misused for pernicious and destructive Read More »
Dual-Use Awareness and Applied Research Ethics: A Brief Introduction to a Social Responsibility Perspective for Scientists
Research Report for the Wellcome Trust Project on `Building a Sustainable Capacity in Dual-use Bioethics` By Judi F. Sture This booklet is intended as a supplement to existing guidance and regulatory mechanisms in biosafety and bioethics with which you as a life scientist are already familiar. It is not intended to overload you with further Read More »
Biosecurity: An Public Health Approach to Reducing Risk
Research Report for the Wellcome Trust Project on `Building a Sustainable Capacity in Dual-use Bioethics` By Chandre Gould “It is a matter of record that over the past ten years there has been increased focus within the setting of international relations upon how to ensure that technological developments in the life sciences are not used Read More »
Awareness of Education about the Biological Weapons Convention (BTWC): Why this is needed by all life scientists and how that might be achieved
Research Report for the Wellcome Trust Project on `Building a Sustainable Capacity in Dual-use Bioethics` By Malcolm Dando Article IV of the BTWC requires that States Parties “prohibit and prevent” what is banned by Article 1. As long ago as the Second Review Conference in 1986 States Parties agreed that education and awareness of life Read More »
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