Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics on November 8-9, 2007

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#  Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics on November 8-9, 2007

**AGENCY:**

The President's Council on Bioethics, HHS.

**ACTION:**

Notice.

**SUMMARY:**

The President's Council on Bioethics (Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Chairman) will hold its thirty-first meeting, at which it will continue (1) its inquiry into the “crisis” of the healing professions with expert presentations and Council discussions; and (2) its inquiry into the moral foundations of health care. Subjects discussed at past Council meetings (although not on the agenda for the November 2007 meeting) include: Therapeutic and reproductive cloning, assisted reproduction, reproductive genetics, neuroscience, aging retardation, organ transplantation, newborn screening, human dignity, 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 ResponsibilityL: 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). Reports on (a) the bioethical significance of the concept of human dignity, (b) controversies in the determination of death, and (c) organ procurement, transplantation, and allocation are forthcoming.

**DATES:**

The meeting will take place Thursday, November 8, 2007, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., ET; and Friday, November 9, 2007, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. ET.

**ADDRESSES:**

Hotel Washington, 515 15th Street (at Pennsylvania Avenue), NW., Washington, DC 20004. Phone 202-638-5900.

*Agenda:* The meeting agenda will be posted at *http://www.bioethics.gov* .

*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 10:45 a.m. on Friday, November 9. 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 the addresses given below.

**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* .

Dated: October 10, 2007.

F. Daniel Davis,

Executive Director, The President's Council on Bioethics.