Dando Malcolm
Wellcome Trust Dual-Use Bioethics Group, Bradford Disarmament Research Centre, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK.
Biotechnol Res Int. 2011;2011:973851. doi: 10.4061/2011/973851. Epub 2010 Oct 7.
This paper investigates the potential threat to the prohibition of the hostile misuse of the life sciences embodied in the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention from the rapid advances in the field of neuroscience. The paper describes how the implications of advances in science and technology are considered at the Five Year Review Conferences of the Convention and how State Parties have developed their appreciations since the First Review Conference in 1980. The ongoing advances in neurosciences are then assessed and their implications for the Convention examined. It is concluded that State Parties should consider a much more regular and systematic review system for such relevant advances in science and technology when they meet at the Seventh Review Conference in late 2011, and that neuroscientists should be much more informed and engaged in these processes of protecting their work from malign misuse.
本文探讨了神经科学领域的快速发展对《生物和毒素武器公约》所体现的禁止恶意滥用生命科学的潜在威胁。本文描述了在该公约的五年审查会议上如何审议科学技术进步的影响，以及自1980年第一次审查会议以来缔约国是如何形成其认识的。随后对神经科学的持续进展进行了评估，并审视了其对该公约的影响。得出的结论是，缔约国在2011年末举行第七次审查会议时，应考虑针对此类相关科学技术进展建立一个更加定期和系统的审查制度，并且神经科学家应更多地了解并参与到保护其工作不被恶意滥用的这些进程中。
