Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Encyclopedia
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. 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.
President
A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
. On Dec 16, 2010, they released their first 188 page report.
President Obama created the commission with mission of providing evaluations of bioethical
Bioethics
Bioethics is the study of controversial ethics brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy....
issues in health care
Health care
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...
and biomedical research.
Reports
- Ethically Impossible: STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948, published September 2011, concluded that the Guatemala syphilis experimentGuatemala syphilis experimentThe syphilis experiments in Guatemala were United States-led human experiments conducted in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948, during the administration of President Truman and President Juan José Arévalo with the cooperation of some Guatemalan health ministries and officials...
s "involved unconscionable basic violations of ethics, even as judged against the researchers’ own recognition of the requirements of the medical ethics of the day." - New Directions: The Ethics of Synthetic Biology and Emerging Technologies, published December 2010, recommended increased federal oversight of synthetic biologySynthetic biologySynthetic biology is a new area of biological research that combines science and engineering. It encompasses a variety of different approaches, methodologies, and disciplines with a variety of definitions...
research.
Members
- Amy GutmannAmy GutmannAmy Gutmann is the eighth President of the University of Pennsylvania and the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Communications, and Philosophy...
, Ph.D., Chair - James W. WagnerJames W. WagnerJames W. Wagner has served as the President of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia since 2003. From 2000 to 2003, he served as Provost and interim President of Case Western Reserve University.-Biography:...
, Ph.D., Vice Chair - Lonnie Ali, M.B.A
- Anita L. AllenAnita L. AllenAnita LaFrance Allen is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is also a senior fellow in the bioethics department of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, a collaborating faculty member in African studies,...
, 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.