비즈니스 · 2004. 11. 9.1 분 읽기
Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics on December 2-3, 2004
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요약
The President's Council on Bioethics (Leon R. Kass, M.D., chairman) will hold its nineteenth meeting, at which, among other things, it will continue its discussion of ethical issues relating to the treatment of the aged, and end-of-life care. Subjects discussed at past Council meetings (though not on the agenda for the present one) include: cloning, stem cell research, embryo research, assisted reproduction, reproductive genetics, IVF, ICSI, PGD, sex selection, inheritable genetic modification, patentability of human organisms, aging retardation, lifespan-extension, and organ procurement for transplantation. 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), and Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies (March 2004).