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January 17-18, 2002
Meeting Agenda

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




THURSDAY, JANUARY 17         Full Transcript

Council Members Present

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 am 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 am Break

11:20 am 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.
2:45 pm Adjournment


FRIDAY, JANUARY 18        Full Transcript  

Council Members Present

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:

10:00 am Break

10:15 am Session 6: Human Cloning 3: Policy Issues and "Research" Cloning.
11:45 am Break

Noon Session 7: Public Comments.

Closing Remarks.
Leon R. Kass, M.D., Chairman.

1:00 pm Adjournment

 

 

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