[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 24, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8259-8260]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-3843]


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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-sixth meeting; the primary focus of 
discussion will be the future of public bioethics and national 
bioethics commissions in the United States. The full agenda will be 
posted on the Council's Web site at http://www.bioethics.gov prior to 
the meeting. Subjects discussed at past Council meetings (although not 
on the agenda for the March 2009 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); Human Dignity 
and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on 
Bioethics (March 2008); The Changing Moral Focus of

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Newborn Screening: An Ethical Analysis by The President's Council on 
Bioethics (December 2008); and Controversies in the Determination of 
Death: A White Paper by The President's Council on Bioethics (December 
2008). Reports are forthcoming on organ transplantation and health care 
reform.

DATES: The meeting will take place Thursday, March 12, 2009, from 9 
a.m. to 5 p.m., ET; and Friday, March 13, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 10:45 
a.m., ET.

ADDRESSES: Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel, 999 9th Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20001. Phone 202-898-9000.

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 10:30 a.m., on Friday, March 13. 
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: February 5, 2009.
F. Daniel Davis,
Executive Director, The President's Council on Bioethics.
[FR Doc. E9-3843 Filed 2-23-09; 8:45 am]
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