Dual Uses of Biomedicine: Whose responsibility?
X Annual Swedish Symposium on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society: Seglarhotellet, Sandhamn, 9-10 June 2008
Plenary session: Keynote lectures
Session I: Challenges to monitoring and governance
Session II: Contextual approaches
Monday June 9
| 09:30 | Boat departure from Stockholm (Strandvägskajen) |
| 11:45 | Arrival and registration |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | Welcome Mats G. Hansson, director, Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics |
| 13:15 | Biosafety and Biosecurity Governance in Life Science Research: Public health aspects; explaining the concepts and their relation; ethical relevance Abstract of presentation Ingegerd Kallings, the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control |
| 14:00 | Discussion |
| 14:15 | Preventing the “Life Sciences” from Becoming the “Death Sciences”: Ethics, law and codes of conduct in dual use research Abstract of presentation Margaret Somerville, McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, Canada |
| 15:00 | Discussion |
| 15:15 | Coffee |
| 15:45 | Taking Due Care in Life Science: Moral obligations in dual use research Abstract of presentation Frida Kuhlau, Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics |
| 16:30 | Discussion |
| 16:45 | Raising Dual Use Awareness in Academia: Experiences and reflections Abstract of presentation Malcolm Dando, University of Bradford, United Kingdom |
| 17:30 | Discussion |
| 17:45 | Plenary session ends |
| 19:00 | X anniversary dinner |
Tuesday June 10
Presentations in parallel sessions.
Session I: Challenges to monitoring and governance
Session II: Contextual approaches
Session I: Challenges to monitoring and governance
| Moderator: | Ingegerd Kallings |
08:30 |
BIOSAFE – a European research project |
|
|
09:00 |
Monitoring dual use of research and its dissemination |
|
|
09:30 |
Laboratory biosecurity handbook |
|
|
10:00 |
Bioethics and biosecurity for life science research |
|
|
10:30 |
Coffee |
| Moderator: | Margaret Somerville |
|
|
11:15 |
A framework analysis on the role of ethical considerations in past biological weapon programmes |
|
|
11:45 |
State responsibility to control dual-use research on the basis of international instruments? |
|
|
12:15 |
Life science research of ‘dual-use’ concern: options for governance |
|
|
12:45 |
What responsibilities do scientists in national biodefence or protection against bioterrorism programs have |
|
|
13:15 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 | X Anniversary ceremonials |
| 15:00 | Symposium ends, boat departs for Stockholm |
| 17:05 | Arrival (Strandvägskajen) Stockholm |
Session II: Contextual approaches
| Moderator: | Malcolm Dando |
08:30 |
The dual-use dilemma, bioterrorism and biosecurity |
|
|
09:00 |
Reviewing dual use research of concern: What is an institution to do? |
|
|
09:30 |
The brain as battlefield: Outline of an ethnographic investigation of the military use of neuroscience |
|
|
10:00 |
Chinese views on biosecurity and the dual use dilemma |
|
|
10:30 |
Coffee, session II ends Symposium continues in Session I |
More information
The symposium was arranged in collaboration with
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, www.sipri.org
Swedish Emergency Management Agency, www.krisberedskapsmyndigheten.se
Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, www.sweden.gov.se
Swedish Research Council, www.vr.se
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation), www.rj.se
Planning committee
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the planning committee:
Josepine Fernow, co-ordinator, josepine.fernow@crb.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 611 22 96
Stefan Eriksson, ThD, Senior Researcher
Kathinka Evers, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher
Anna Höglund, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
Frida Kuhlau, MsC, PhD Student
Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics
Uppsala Science Park
SE-751 85 Uppsala
E-mail: crb@crb.uu.se
