Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits

BRIAN RAPPERT is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs in the Department of Sociology& Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK. His long term interest has been the examination of how choices can and are made about the regulation of technologies in conditions of uncertainty and disagreement. He is the author of Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics, Persuasion and the Prohibition of Inhumanity (2006); Technology and Security (ed., 2007), and A Web of Prevention: Biological Weapons, Life Sciences and the Future Governance of Research (with Caitriona McLeish eds., 2007).

• Introduction: What Should be Done?   PART I: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND SOCIAL INQUIRY Chapter 1: The Dilemmas of Dual Use Research Chapter 2: Discussing Science Chapter 3: Inquiry, Engagement, and Education   PART II: THE CONVERSATIONS - THEMES AND ACTIONS Chapter 4: Learning to Respond Chapter 5: Openness and Constraint Chapter 6: Neutrality and Bias Chapter 7: Expertise and Equality   PART III: THE LIMITS OF METHOD Chapter 8: Closing Remarks