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List of contributors --Foreword / Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction : A web of prevention? / Daniel Feakes, Brian Rappert -- and Caitríona McLeish -- Origins -- Outline of the book -- 1. Life sciences or death sciences : tipping the balance towards life with ethics, codes and laws / Ronald M. Atlas -- and Margaret Somerville -- Legal prohibitions -- Legitimate research that could be misused : dual use research -- Towards professional codes of conduct -- Responses to proposed codes of ethics to govern the life sciences -- Conclusions -- 2. Whistleblowers : risks and skills / Brian Martin -- Official channels -- Ethics codes -- Skills -- Conclusions -- 3. Education for the life sciences : choices and challenges / Brian Rappert -- The pervasive call for education -- The predicaments of education -- Educational initiatives -- The life sciences, biosecurity and dual use research seminars -- Conclusions -- 4. Dual use : can we learn from the physicists' experience? : a personal view / John L. Finney -- Immediately after the bomb -- The hydrogen bomb -- Where have the concerned physicists gone? -- Physics and biology : nuclear and biological weapons -- Cross-fertilization of dual use consciousness -- 5. Science and technology developments relevant to the Biological Weapons Convention / Royal Society -- The BWC and dual use dilemmas -- Synthetic biology -- Post-genomic technologies -- Immunological research -- Drug delivery -- Agriculture and environmental biotechnology -- A note on diagnosis and surveillance of infectious diseases -- Key issues -- Conclusions -- 6. Options for a scientific advisory panel for the Biological Weapons Convention / Catherine Rhodes -- and Malcolm Dando -- The Biological Weapons Convention regime and science -- Models of scientific input -- A typology of options for scientific advice -- Appropriate options for a BWC Scientific Advisory Board -- 7. Dual use biotechnology research : the case for protective oversight / Elisa D. Harris -- Confronting the dual use problem? -- An alternative approach -- Next steps -- 8. Reflections on the role of research oversight in a web of prevention / Thomas V. Holohan -- 9. Export control and the non-proliferation of materials : national boundaries in international science? / Jez Littlewood -- Export controls : a primer -- UK approaches to biological weapons-related export controls -- Regional, like-minded and other mechanisms -- national boundaries on international science? -- Conclusions -- 10. Chemical and biological weapons export controls and the 'web of prevention' : a practitioner's perspective / Robert J. Mathews -- Introduction -- A brief history of the Australia Group -- Reflections on the evolution of the Australia Group -- Export licensing, web of deterrence and web of prevention -- 11. How does secrecy work? : keeping and disclosing secrets in the history of the UK biological warfare programme / Brian Balmer -- Keeping secrets : security classification and the value of information -- Letting secrets out : orderly and disorderly release of knowledge -- Conclusions -- 12. Reflecting on the problem of dual use / Catríona McLeish -- The role of 'dual use' in biological weapons threat framings -- Deconstructing the concept of 'dual use' -- Understanding dual use in terms of policy solutions -- What can be learned about the concept of dual use? -- Conclusions -- 13. Governing dual use life science research : opportunities and risks for public health / Emmanuelle Tuerlings -- Index.