Monthly Archives: November, 2014
Bad Blood Author James H. Jones Visits the Bioethics Commission
The staff of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) was pleased to welcome James H. Jones, Ph.D., to the office on November 21, 2014 for a discussion of his book Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, A Tragedy of Race and Medicine. First published in 1981 (Revised edition, 1993), Bad […]
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The Bioethics Commission’s Neuro Double-Header
Since President Obama’s April 2013 launch of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) has worked to ensure that ethics is an integral part of the conversation when discussing neuroscience. This past week, the Bioethics Commission was busy discussing its work at […]
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A Look at How M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Uses Bioethics Educational Materials
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) loves hearing from educators who use our pedagogical materials in traditional and nontraditional settings. As a part of its initiative to promote and enhance bioethics education, the Bioethics Commission has produced a library of educational materials to accompany its reports. The Commission aims to […]
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Deliberation and Education in Bioethics: Overview
In the final session of its nineteenth public meeting, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) heard from a panel of experts on deliberation and bioethics education, a theme that has been central throughout the Commission’s work since it was established by President Obama in 2009. In introducing the new project […]
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Deliberation and Bioethics Education: A Case Study of Public Health Emergency Response
This morning, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) turned its attention to its next report topic: deliberation and bioethics education. The Bioethics Commission advises President Obama and his administration on issues arising from advances in biomedicine and related areas of science and technology and, in so doing, educates the nation […]
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Live from Salt Lake City
Welcome back to live blog coverage of the nineteenth public meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission). The Bioethics Commission is meeting in Salt Lake City today, November 6, 2014, from 9 a.m. to noon MT. Yesterday, the Bioethics Commission continued its review of ethical issues associated with neuroscience […]
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Bioethics Commission Discusses Law and Neuroscience
This afternoon, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) turned its attention to law and neuroscience as part of its deliberations on potential recommendations related to neuroscience that it may offer to the President. Bioethics Commission Chair Amy Gutmann, Ph.D., began by focusing discussion questions around whether and how to use […]
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Bioethics Commission Deliberates Consent Capacity
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) is devoting the majority of today’s public meeting in Salt Lake City to discussing potential neuroscience-related recommendations that it could offer to President Obama. This morning, Bioethics Commission Chair Amy Gutmann, Ph.D., noted that three areas have emerged throughout the public meetings at which […]
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Bioethics Commission Deliberates Neuroscience-Related Recommendations
Following this morning’s presentations and discussion about the ethical responsibilities of direct-to-consumer neuroscience companies, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) launched into the next phase of its neuroscience project – deliberating its recommendations for the President. As part of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, President Obama […]
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Ethical Responsibilities of Direct-to-Consumer Neuroscience Companies
As part of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, President Obama asked the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) to “identify proactively a set of core ethical standards – both to guide neuroscience research and to address some of the ethical dilemmas that may be raised by the […]
