Introduction : A web of prevention? / Daniel Feakes, Brian Rappert and Caitríona McLeish
Life sciences or death sciences : tipping the balance towards life with ethics, codes and laws / Ronald M. Atlas and Margaret Somerville
Whistleblowers : risks and skills / Brian Martin
Education for the life sciences : choices and challenges / Brian Rappert
Dual use : can we learn from the physicists' experience? : a personal view / John L. Finney
Science and technology developments relevant to the Biological Weapons Convention / Royal Society
Options for a scientific advisory panel for the Biological Weapons Convention / Catherine Rhodes and Malcolm Dando
Dual use biotechnology research : the case for protective oversight / Elisa D. Harris
Reflections on the role of research oversight in a web of prevention / Thomas V. Holohan
Export control and the non-proliferation of materials : national boundaries in international science? / Jez Littlewood
Chemical and biological weapons export controls and the 'web of prevention' : a practitioner's perspective / Robert J. Mathews
How does secrecy work? : keeping and disclosing secrets in the history of the UK biological warfare programme / Brian Balmer
Reflecting on the problem of dual use / Catríona McLeish
Governing dual use life science research : opportunities and risks for public health / Emmanuelle Tuerlings.
