meeting 19

SESSION 2: MEMBER DISCUSSION

SESSION 6: DELIBERATION AND BIOETHICS EDUCATION: CASE STUDY OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY RESPONSE (CONTINUED)

DR. GUTMANN: Welcome back, everybody. We  are going to move on to our second speaker for Public  Health Emergency Response, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

SESSION 5: DELIBERATION AND BIOETHICS EDUCATION: CASE STUDY OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY RESPONSE

       DR. GUTMANN: Good morning, everybody. I'm Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

SESSION 3: MEMBER DISCUSSION [CONSENT CAPACITY FRAMING AND POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATIONS]

SESSION 7: DELIBERATION AND BIOETHICS EDUCATION: OVERVIEW

DR. WAGNER:  Folks, thank you for joining us.  This panel is going to be a little more theoretical, less focused on a particular incident, and a little less applied.  It will give us an overview of what deliberation of bioethics education can mean generally.  And folks, the way we will work this is I will introduce you each, one at a time, and ask you to speak.

Do they have a ten minute time limit, also?

DR. GUTMANN:  Yes.

DR. GUTMANN:  Welcome everybody.  I'm Amy Gutmann.  I'm President of the University of Pennsylvania.  And I'm Director and Chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.  And on behalf of myself and our Vice Chair, Jim Wagner, and all of our Commission members, I'd like to welcome you to this, our nineteenth meeting. I will begin by noting the presence of our designated federal official, Bioethics Commission Executive Director Lisa M. Lee.  Lisa, please stand up. Thank you.

DR. GUTMANN:  So we are turning now to our third specific topic, Neuroscience and Law.  And we can take this work in many directions.  But certainly some fundamental questions that involve whether and how to use neuroscience technologies in the courtroom.  For example, what can neuroscience in its current capacity tell us about whether any individual is legally blameworthy for his or her actions?  What is the potential for neuroscience to answer this question?