The Existing Guidance for "Dual-Use" Research

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作者
Gronvall, Gigi Kwik [1 ,2 ]
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[1] UPMC Ctr Hlth Secur, Baltimore, MD 21202 USA
[2] Univ Pittsburgh, Sch Med, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
关键词
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; ETHICS;
D O I
10.1002/hast.396
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B82 [伦理学(道德学)];
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摘要
In considering how to weigh the risks and benefits of synthetic biology, Kaebnick, Gusmano, and Murray pose the question of whether there is scientific research that should not be funded or performed, or if there are potentially dangerous results that should not be widely disseminated. Such questions, they propose, require a new set of rules and norms for knowledge generationan ethics of knowledge. They identify two examples of research that might fall into a nonpermissible category, including research that is aimed at producing and disseminating knowledge of . . . how to produce more dangerous forms of H5N1 and smallpox. There are already rules and norms to guide the funding and generation of scientific knowledge, however, including research on influenza and smallpox. Even if more rules and guidance were added to the practice of science, potentially problematic, dual-use research would still occur, and as a practical matter, it is unlikely that results from those studies can be contained, particularly if the research is of wide interest.
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页码:S34 / S35
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