Overview
- Addresses a topic of tremendous contemporary importance
- Addresses controversial topics such as biological weapons, academic/scientific freedom, and censorship
- The dual-use dilemma is undoubtedly one of the most important and controversial issues in current debates about bioterrorism
- Lays out the dilemma that scientists and policymakers are faced with as a result
- The first thoroughgoing book-length treatment of the topic by professional ethicists
- Challenges, and offers an alternative perspective to, the hugely influential U.S. National Research Council position on the dual-use dilemma
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....Welcome to the dual-use dilemma, which Seumas Miller and Michael Selgelid argue arises from the fact that "one and the same piece of scientific research sometimes has the potential to be used for harm as well as for good" (p.1) In this report Miller and Selgelid provide a concise, clear-headed and helpful introduction to the policy and ethical implications of the dual-use dilemma in the bioethical sciences. It should be read by policymakers and scientists. Many others, including students, scholars studying interactions of science, technology, and society would benefit from this pithy report.....
- A. Briggle, University of Twente, Enschede the Netherlands, Nanoethics 2009 3:75-77.
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Book Title: Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences
Authors: Seumas Miller, Michael J. Selgelid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8312-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8311-2Published: 21 July 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8312-9Published: 30 July 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 76
Topics: Ethics, Life Sciences, general, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology, Public Health, Popular Science, general