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All's fair in love and war
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Based at the University of Virginia Medical School, Jonathan Moreno, director of their Centre for Biomedical Ethics, explores the ethical, social and legal implications of research into neuroscience. In particular, he questions the work undertaken by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), set up by the US government in 1958 to ensure that the USA did not fall behind the Soviets in the space race. DARPA, with a current budget of around three billion million dollars, diversified from its original projects and currently investigates any form of science that has implications for national security. Early in 2006, it included in its strategic targets: ‘biological approaches for maintaining the warfighter's performance, capabilities and medical survival in the face of harsh battlefield conditions; biological approaches for minimizing the after-effects of battlefield injuries ... as well as faster recuperation from battlefield injury and wounds ... new approaches for understanding and predicting the
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, United Kingdom
Email: edgar.jones@iop.kcl.ac.uk