Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues was created by Executive Order 13521 on November 24, 2009, to succeed the disbanded President's Council on Bioethics.[1] The Commission's leadership and members were appointed by President Barack Obama. On Dec 16, 2010, they released their first 188 page report.
President Obama created the commission with mission of providing evaluations of bioethical issues in health care and biomedical research.[2]
Reports
- Ethically Impossible: STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948, published September 2011, concluded that the Guatemala syphilis experiments "involved unconscionable basic violations of ethics, even as judged against the researchers’ own recognition of the requirements of the medical ethics of the day."[3]
- New Directions: The Ethics of Synthetic Biology and Emerging Technologies, published December 2010, recommended increased federal oversight of synthetic biology research.[4]
Members
- Amy Gutmann, Ph.D., Chair
- James W. Wagner, Ph.D., Vice Chair
- Lonnie Ali, M.B.A
- Anita L. Allen, J.D., Ph.D.
- John D. Arras, Ph.D.
- Barbara F. Atkinson, M.D.
- Nita A. Farahany, J.D., Ph.D.
- Alexander G. Garza, M.D.
- Christine Grady, R.N., Ph.D.
- Stephen L. Hauser, M.D.
- Raju S. Kucherlapati, Ph.D.
- Nelson Lee Michael, M.D., Ph.D.
- Daniel Sulmasy, M.D., Ph.D.
References
- ^ Executive Order 13521 - Establishing the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, November 24, 2009, Vol. 74, No. 228, 74 F.R. 62671
- ^ "President Obama Establishes New Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Names Commission Leadership", whitehouse.gov, November 24, 2009
- ^ Ethically Impossible: STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, published September 2011, accessed 2011-09-14
- ^ New Directions: The Ethics of Synthetic Biology and Emerging Technologies, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, published December 2010, accessed 2011-09-14
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