PCBE: January 17-18, 2002 Meeting Agenda

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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. 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
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: 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
Noon	Session 7: Public Comments. Closing Remarks. Leon R. Kass, M.D., Chairman.
1:00 pm	Adjournment

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