[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 208 (Monday, October 27, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63713-63714]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-25564]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Public 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-fifth meeting, at which it will 
discuss three topics: exercises of conscience in the practice of the 
health professions, the problem of medical futility, and the future of 
public bioethics and national bioethics commissions in the United 
States. Subjects discussed at past Council meetings (although not on 
the agenda for the November 2008 meeting) include: therapeutic and 
reproductive cloning, assisted reproduction, reproductive genetics, 
neuroscience, aging retardation, organ transplantation, personalized 
medicine, standards for the determination of death, children and 
bioethics, and lifespan-extension among others. 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 four topics: 
controversies in the determination of death; organ donation, 
procurement, allocation, and transplantation; newborn screening; and 
medical care and the common good.

DATES: The meeting will take place Thursday, November 20, 2008, from 9 
a.m. to 5 p.m., ET; and Friday, November 21, 2008, from 9 a.m. to noon, 
ET.

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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: [email protected]. Web site: http://www.bioethics.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting agenda will be posted at http://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, November 
21. 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: October 17, 2008.
F. Daniel Davis,
Executive Director, The President's Council on Bioethics.
[FR Doc. E8-25564 Filed 10-24-08; 8:45 am]
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