[Federal Register: August 15, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 157)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics on
September 7-8, 2006
AGENCY: The President's Council on Bioethics, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The President's Council on Bioethics (Edmund D. Pellegrino,
MD, Chairman) will hold its twenty-sixth meeting, at which, among other
things, it will hear presentations on and discuss issues in two broad
areas: (1) Organ procurement, allocation, and transplantation and (2)
the personal, social, and policy-related significance of genetic
information and knowledge. The discussions in both areas are
continuations of previous Council discussions. Subjects discussed at
past Council meetings (although not on the agenda for the September
2006 meeting) include: human dignity, therapeutic and reproductive
cloning, assisted reproduction, reproductive genetics, neuroscience,
aging retardation, 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:
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The Regulation of New Biotechnologies (March 2004), Alternative Sources
of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: A White Paper (May 2005), and Taking
Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society (September 2005).
DATES: The meeting will take place Thursday, September 7, 2006, from 9
a.m. to 5:15 p.m., ET; and Friday, September 8, 2006, from 8:30 a.m. to
12 noon, ET.
ADDRESSES: The Westin Embassy Row, 2100 Massachusetts Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20008. Phone 202-293-2100.
Agenda: The meeting agenda will be posted at http://www.bioethics.gov
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Public Comments: 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
8. Comments are limited to no more than five minutes per speaker or
organization. As a courtesy, please inform Ms. Diane 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 the addresses
given below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Diane Gianelli, Director of
Communications, The President's Council on Bioethics, Suite 700, 1801
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006. Telephone: 202/296-4669.
E-mail: info@bioethics.gov. Web site: http://www.bioethics.gov.
Dated: August 7, 2006.
F. Daniel Davis,
Executive Director, The President's Council on Bioethics.
[FR Doc. E6-13350 Filed 8-14-06; 8:45 am]
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