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dc.contributor.authorRappert, Brianen_GB
dc.contributor.authorDavidson, E. Meganen_GB
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.contributor.departmentDuke Universityen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2008-07-21T11:59:18Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-25T10:55:03Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-20T15:59:37Z
dc.date.issued2008-03en_GB
dc.description.abstractThe ‘dual-use’ potential of life science research has been a topic of increasing attention in recent years as part of the growing concern about the inadvertent or deliberate spread of disease. While ‘dual-use’ functions as an umbrella phrase, one sense of it refers to the possibility that ‘the generation and dissemination of scientific knowledge […] could be misapplied for biological weapons development and production.’ Major studies of this sense of the term include the US National Research Council (NRC) and Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism, the NRC’s Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of the Life Sciences, and the British Royal Society’s Scientific and Technological Developments Relevant to the Biological & Toxin Weapons Convention. Echoing sentiments elsewhere, these analyses have underscored the breadth and scale of challenges in preventing the destructive application of the life sciences.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationProceedings of ‘Promoting Biosafety and Biosecurity within the Life Sciences’ Kampala 11-12 March 2008en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10036/32558en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.subjectlife sciencesen_GB
dc.subjectscientific researchen_GB
dc.subjectbiosciencesen_GB
dc.subjectbiotechnologyen_GB
dc.subjectbiological weaponsen_GB
dc.subjectresearch governanceen_GB
dc.subjectresearch ethicsen_GB
dc.titleImproving oversight: development of an educational module on dual-use research in the Westen_GB
dc.typeMeetings and Proceedingsen_GB
dc.date.available2008-07-21T11:59:18Zen_GB
dc.date.available2011-01-25T10:55:03Zen_GB
dc.date.available2013-03-20T15:59:37Z


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