The President's Council on Bioethics: January 2002 Meeting Agenda

January 17-18, 2002
Meeting Agenda

Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel
480 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20024

8:30 am	Session 1 : Welcome and Opening Remarks. Leon R. Kass, M.D., Chairman.
9:00 am	Reactions and Opening Statements. Members of Council.
10:00 am	Break
10:15 pm	Session 2 : Science and the Pursuit of Perfection. Introduction to Council discussion, led by William F. May, Ph.D. Discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Story, " The Birth-Mark ."
11:15 pm	Break
11:20 pm	Session 3 : How to Do Bioethics. Discussion of Gilbert Meilaender Paper, " In Search of Wisdom: Bioethics and the Character of Human Life ."
12:50 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Session 4 : Human Cloning 1: Human Procreation and Biotechnology. Discussion of Cloning Staff Working Paper # 1 : Biotechnology, Procreation, and the Meaning of Human Cloning Background: Cloning Staff Working Paper # 2 : Scientific Aspects of Human and Animal Cloning References Glossary of Terms
2:45 pm	Adjournment

8:30 am	Opening Remarks. Leon R. Kass, M.D., Chairman. Session 5 : Human Cloning 2: Ethical Issues in Clonal Reproduction. Discussion of Cloning Working Paper #3: Working Paper # 3a : Arguments for "Reproductive" Cloning Working Paper # 3b : Arguments against "Reproductive" Cloning
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Session 6 : Human Cloning 3: Policy Issues and "Research" Cloning. Discussion of Cloning Staff Working Paper # 4 : Policy Considerations " Appendix A : Typology of the Moral Status of the Embryo ."
11:45 am	Break
12:00 pm	Session 7 : Public Comments. Closing Remarks . Leon R. Kass, M.D., Chairman.
1:00 pm	Adjournment