Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics, 47603 [E8-18830]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 158 / Thursday, August 14, 2008 / Notices Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 11, 2008. Robert deV. Frierson, Deputy Secretary of the Board. [FR Doc. E8–18828 Filed 8–13–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6210–01–S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Meeting of the President’s Council on Bioethics Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Public Health and Science, The President’s Council on Bioethics. ACTION: Notice. sroberts on PROD1PC70 with NOTICES AGENCY: SUMMARY: The President’s Council on Bioethics (Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Chairman) will hold its thirty-fourth meeting, at which it will discuss its projected white paper on ethical questions in medical care reform as well as hear and discuss presentations on two additional topics, i.e., exercises of conscience in the practice of the health professions and futility in clinical judgments at the end of life. Subjects discussed at past Council meetings (although not on the agenda for the September 2008 meeting) include: Therapeutic and reproductive cloning, assisted reproduction, reproductive genetics, neuroscience, aging retardation, organ transplantation, personalized medicine, and lifespanextension. Publications issued by the Council to date include: Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (July 2002); Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness (October 2003); Being Human: Readings from the President’s Council on Bioethics (December 2003); Monitoring Stem Cell Research (January 2004), Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies (March 2004), Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: A White Paper (May 2005), Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society (September 2005), and Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President’s Council on Bioethics (March 2008). Reports are forthcoming on three topics: Controversies in the determination of death; organ donation, procurement, allocation, and transplantation; and newborn screening. DATES: The meeting will take place Thursday, September 11, 2008, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., ET; and Friday, VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:57 Aug 13, 2008 Jkt 214001 September 12, 2008, from 9 a.m. to noon, ET. ADDRESSES: Hotel Palomar Arlington, 1121 North 19th Street, Arlington, VA 22209. Phone 703–351–9170. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Diane M. Gianelli, Director of Communications, The President’s Council on Bioethics, 1425 New York Avenue, NW., Suite C100, Washington, DC 20005. Telephone: 202/296–4669. Email: info@bioethics.gov. Web site: https://www.bioethics.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting agenda will be posted at https://www.bioethics.gov. The Council encourages public input, either in person or in writing. At this meeting, interested members of the public may address the Council, beginning at 11:45 a.m. on Friday, September 12. Comments are limited to no more than five minutes per speaker or organization. As a courtesy, please inform Ms. Diane M. Gianelli, Director of Communications, in advance of your intention to make a public statement, and give your name and affiliation. To submit a written statement, mail or email it to Ms. Gianelli at one of her contact addresses given above. Dated: August 4, 2008. F. Daniel Davis, Executive Director, The President’s Council on Bioethics. [FR Doc. 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[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 158 (Thursday, August 14, 2008)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: E8-18830]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics

AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Public 
Health and Science, The President's Council on Bioethics.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The President's Council on Bioethics (Edmund D. Pellegrino, 
MD, Chairman) will hold its thirty-fourth meeting, at which it will 
discuss its projected white paper on ethical questions in medical care 
reform as well as hear and discuss presentations on two additional 
topics, i.e., exercises of conscience in the practice of the health 
professions and futility in clinical judgments at the end of life. 
Subjects discussed at past Council meetings (although not on the agenda 
for the September 2008 meeting) include: Therapeutic and reproductive 
cloning, assisted reproduction, reproductive genetics, neuroscience, 
aging retardation, organ transplantation, personalized medicine, and 
lifespan-extension. Publications issued by the Council to date include: 
Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (July 2002); Beyond 
Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness (October 2003); 
Being Human: Readings from the President's Council on Bioethics 
(December 2003); Monitoring Stem Cell Research (January 2004), 
Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies 
(March 2004), Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: A 
White Paper (May 2005), Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging 
Society (September 2005), and Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays 
Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics (March 2008). 
Reports are forthcoming on three topics: Controversies in the 
determination of death; organ donation, procurement, allocation, and 
transplantation; and newborn screening.

DATES: The meeting will take place Thursday, September 11, 2008, from 9 
a.m. to 5 p.m., ET; and Friday, September 12, 2008, from 9 a.m. to 
noon, ET.

ADDRESSES: Hotel Palomar Arlington, 1121 North 19th Street, Arlington, 
VA 22209. Phone 703-351-9170.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Diane M. Gianelli, Director of 
Communications, The President's Council on Bioethics, 1425 New York 
Avenue, NW., Suite C100, Washington, DC 20005. Telephone: 202/296-4669. 
E-mail: info@bioethics.gov. Web site: https://www.bioethics.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting agenda will be posted at https://
www.bioethics.gov. The Council encourages public input, either in 
person or in writing. At this meeting, interested members of the public 
may address the Council, beginning at 11:45 a.m. on Friday, September 
12. Comments are limited to no more than five minutes per speaker or 
organization. As a courtesy, please inform Ms. Diane M. Gianelli, 
Director of Communications, in advance of your intention to make a 
public statement, and give your name and affiliation. To submit a 
written statement, mail or e-mail it to Ms. Gianelli at one of her 
contact addresses given above.

    Dated: August 4, 2008.
F. Daniel Davis,
 Executive Director, The President's Council on Bioethics.
[FR Doc. E8-18830 Filed 8-13-08; 8:45 am]
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