The President's Council on Bioethics: The Council
The Council's Website

http://www.bioethics.gov/

Council Publications

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)

Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies (March 2004)

White Paper: Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells (May 2005)

Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in our Aging Society (September 2005)

Resources on the Council

Articles about the Council:

Anderson, Maria. (2004). “Bush Dismisses Council Members,” The Scientist, March 3, Available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040303/04.

Annas, George, and Sherman Elias. (2004). “Politics, Morals, and Embryos,” Nature, vol. 431, pp. 19-20.

Arnhart, Larry. (2005). “The President’s Council on Bioethics,” in Carl Mitcham, ed. The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics ( New York: Macmillan).

ASCB (American Society for Cell Biology). (2004). “Cell Biologists Oppose Removal of Top Scientist,” Press release, March 2. Available at http://www.ascb.org/newsroom/blackburn.html.

Asch, Adrienne. (2005). "Big Tend Bioethics: Toward an Inclusive and Reasonable Bioethics," Hastings Center Report, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 11-12.

Bailey, Ronald. (1999). “Petri Dish Politics,” December. Available from: http://reason.com/9912/fe.rb.petri.shtml

Berkowitz, Peter. (2002). “Pathos of the Kass Report,” Policy Review, October and November, pp. 71-79.

Brainard, Jeffrey. (2004). “A New Kind of Bioethics,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 21, pp. A22-A24.

Briggle, Adam, and Carl Mitcham. (2005). “Bioethics Committees and Commissions,” in Carl Mitcham, ed. The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. New York: Macmillan. Forthcoming.

Burgess, Claire. (2004). “Bioethics Bestseller: A Government Council Revives the Humanities,” National Review Online. May 27.

Bush, George W. (2001). “Remarks by the President on Stem Cell Research,” national address on August 9. Available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/20010809-2.html

Callahan, Daniel. (2003). "Individual Good and Common Good: A Communitarian Approach to Bioethics," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 496-507.

Callahan, Daniel. (2006). "Bioethics and Ideology," Hastings Center Report, vol. 36, no. 1, p. 3.

Cameron, Nigel. (2002). "Defending Dignity (an Interview with Leon Kass)," American Enterprise, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 44-46.

Caplan, Arthur. (2002). “A Council of Clones,” Diabetes Daily News, January 18, Available at www.deabetesdailynews.org/print/print0102/p_0102_11.htm

Caplan, Arthur. (2005). "Who Lost China? A Foreshadowing of Today's Ideological Disputes in Bioethics," Hastings Center Report, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 12-13.

Charo, R. Alta. (2004). "Passing on the Right: Conservative Bioethics is Closer than it Appears," Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, vol. 32, pp. 307-314.

Check, Erika. (2002). "Panel's Conflicting Views Cloud Legal Future of Human Cloning," Nature, vol. 415, pp. 351-352.

Check, Erika. (2004). “Bush Sacks Outspoken Biologist from Ethics Council,” Nature, vol. 428, no. 4.

Childress, James. (2003). " Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The report of the President's Council on Bioethics," Hastings Center Report, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 15-18.

Cohen, Cynthia. (2005)." The President's Council on Bioethics and Approaches to Public Deliberation Taken by National Bioethics Commissions - Introduction," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 219-220.

Cohen, Cynthia. (2005). " Promises and perils of public deliberation: Contrasting Two National Bioethics Commissions on Embryonic Stem Cell Research," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 269-288.

Cohen, Erik. (2006). "Conservative Bioethics and the Search for Wisdom," Hastings Center Report, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 44-56.

Cook, Michael. (2004). “Ethics as Our Guide,” PLoS Biology, vol. 2, no. 6, p. 737.

Dzur, Albert and Daniel Levin. (2004). “The ‘Nation’s Conscience:’ Assessing Bioethics Commissions as Public Forums,” The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 333-360.

Elliott, Carl. (2004). “Beyond Politics,” MSN Slate Magazine. Available from: http://slate.msn.com/id/2096815

Ferguson, Andrew. (2002). "Kass Warfare: The President's Bioethics Council Enters the Cloning Fray," The Weekly Standard, vol. 7, no. 20, pp13-15.

Galston, William. (2003). "The Danger of Absolutes," The Public Interest, no. 150, pp. 50-54.

Gillespie, Nick. (2002). “Anti-Science-Fiction,” MSN Slate Magazine. Available at http://slate.msn.com/id/2060902.

Groopman, Jerome. (2002). “Comment: Science Fiction,” New Yorker, February 4, p. 23.

Hall, Stephen. (2002). “President’s Bioethics Council Delivers,” Science, vol. 297, no. 5580, pp. 322-324.

Hall, Constance. (2004). “White House Panel Issues its Final Word on Reproductive Technology,” Science, vol. 304, no. 5668, p. 188.

Holden, Constance. (2004). “Researchers Blast U.S. Bioethics Panel Shuffle,” Science , vol. 303, no. 5667, p. 1447.

Holden, Constance. (2005). "Pellegrino to Succeed Kass on U.S. Panel," Science, vol. 309, no. 5742, p. 1800.

Hudson, Kathy. (2004). " Something Old and Something New," The Hastings Center Report, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 14-15.

Kintisch, Eli. (2005). “Anticloning Forces Launch Second-Term Offensive,” Science, vol. 307, no. 5716, pp. 1702-1703.

Levin, Yuval. (2003). "The Paradox of Conservative Bioethics," The New Atlantis, no. 1, pp. 53-65.

Lovell-Badge, Robin. (2004). “Ethereal Ethics,” PLoS Biology, vol. 2, no. 6, p. 739.

Lustig, Andrew. (2005). "After Kass: The Future of the President's Council on Bioethics," Commonweal, December 2, pp. 7-8.

Macklin, Ruth. (2006). "The New Conservatives in Bioethics: Who are they and what do they Seek?," Hastings Center Report, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 34-43.

Mahowald, Mary. (2005). "The President's Council on Bioethics, 2002-2004 - An Overview," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 159-171.

Majumder, Mary Anderlik. (2005). "Respecting Difference and Moving Beyond Regulation: Tasks for US Bioethics Commissions in the Twenty-first Century," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 289-303.

McClay, Wilfred. (2004). “Science and Self-Government,” The New Atlantis, no. 4, Winter.

Meslin, Eric. (2002). "Some Clues about the President's Council on Bioethics," Hastings Center Report, vol. 32, no. 1, p. 8.

Meslin, Eric. (2004). "The President's Council on Bioethics: Fair and Balanced?," Hastings Center Report, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 6-8.

Michaels, David., et al. (2002). “Advice without Dissent,” Science, vol. 298, no. 5594, p. 703.

Mooney, Chris. (2001). “Irrationalist in Chief,” The American Prospect, vol. 12, no. 17. Available at: http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/17/mooney-c.html.

Moreno, Jonathan. (2005). "The End of the Great Bioethics Compromise," Hastings Center Report, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 14-15.

Morgan, S. Philip, SuzanneShanahan, and Whitney Welsh. (2005). " Brave New Worlds: Philosophy, Politics, and Science in Human Biotechnology," Population and Development Review, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 127-144

Murphy, TF . (2004). " Being human: Readings from the President's Council on Bioethics," American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 125-127.

Murray, Iain. (2005). “Bioethics Panel Illustrates Scientific Ethics’ Complexity,” available at http://www.techcentralstation.com/031505C.html.

Nature Biotechnology . (2003). “Beyond Belief,” vol. 21, p. 1411.

Nature Biotechnology. (2004). “Change the Record,” vol. 22, no. 4, p. 361.

Nelson, James. (2005). " The Baroness's Committee and the President's Council: Ambition and Alienation in Public Bioethics," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 251-267.

Noah, Timothy. (2004). "Leon Kass, You Silly Ass! Please Stop Denying you Tilted the Bioethics Panel," MSN Slate Magazine, available at: http://www.slate.com/id/2096848/.

Roberznieks, Adnis. (2004). “Bioethics Council Reaches Consensus on Assisted Reproduction,” AMnews, Available from: http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/04/19/prsf0419.htm

Rosen, Christine. (2004). “Good Council: A Review of Two Recent Reports from the President’s Council on Bioethics,” Ethics and Public Policy Center, Available at www.eppc.org/printVersion/print_pub.asp?pubID+2141

Rosen, G. (2003). "Who's Afraid of Leon Kass?," Commentary, vol. 115, no. 1, pp. 28-33.

Saletan, William. (2002). “Bush’s Mutant Cloning Report,” MSN Slate Magazine. Available at http://slate.msn.com/id/2068129

Saletan, William. (2004a). “Govern This,” MSN Slate Magazine. Available at http://slate.msn.com/id/2110654

Saletan, William. (2004b). “The Mind-Body Problem,” MSN Slate Magazine. Available at http://slate.msn.com/id/2110577

Saletan, William. (2005). “Who’s Right in the Bioethics Debates,” MSN Slate Magazine. Available at: http://www.slate.com/id/2127925/?nav=fo

Smith, Wesley. (2003). “Kass, in the Firing Line,” National Review Online.

Steinbrook, Robert. (2004). “Science, Politics, and Federal Advisory Committees,” New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 350, no. 14, pp. 1454-1460.

Turner, Leigh. (2003). "Has the President's Council on Bioethics Missed the Boat?," British Medical Journal, vol. 327, p. 629.

Turner, Leigh. (2004). “Science, Politics, and the President’s Council on Bioethics,” Nature Biotechnology, vol. 22, pp. 509-510.

Union of Concerned Scientists. (2004). “Scientific Integrity in Policymaking,” section on the Council available at http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/page.cfm?pageID=1446.

Vogel, Lawrence. (2005). “Natural-Law Judaism?: The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, and Leon Kass,” unpublished.

Weed, Matthew. (2004). "Ethics, Regulation, and Biomedical Research," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 361-368.

Weiss, Rick. (2004). “Bush Ejects Two from the Bioethics Council: Changes Renew Criticism that the President Puts Politics ahead of Science,” Washington Post, February 28, p. A6.

Weiss, Rick. (2005). “Conservatives Draft a ‘Bioethics Agenda’ for President,” Washington Post , March 8, p. A06.

Wilkie, Dana. (2002). “The Puzzle of Leon Kass,” Crisis Magazine, available at http://www.crisismagazine.com/june2002/feature3.htm.

Wolfson, Adam. (2003). “Why Conservatives Care About Biotechnology,” The New Atlantis. Available from: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/2/wolfson.htm

Wright, Robert. (2001). “Fearful New World ,” MSN Slate Magazine. Available from: http://slate.msn.com/id/113517

Articles and Books by Council members:

Blackburn, Elizabeth. (2004a). “Bioethics and the Political Distortion of Biomedical Science,” New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 350, no. 14, pp. 1379-1380.

Blackburn, Elizabeth. (2004b). “A ‘ Full Range’ of Bioethical Views Just Got Narrower,” Washington Post, March 7, p. B02.

Blackburn, Elizabeth, and Janet Rowley. (2004). “Reason as Our Guide,” PLoS Biology, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 420-422.

Blackburn, Elizabeth. (2005). "Thoughs of a Former Council Member," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 172-180.

Carson, Benjamin. (1992). Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.

Dresser, Rebecca. (2001). When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dresser, Rebecca. (2005). "Stem Cell Research: The Bigger Picture," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 181-194.

Fukuyama, Francis. (1992). The End of History and the Last Man. New York: Free Press.

Fukuyama, Francis. (1999). The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order. New York: Free Press.

Fukuyama, Francis. (2002). Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Farar, Straus and Giroux.

Fukuyama, Francis. (2005). "Human Biomedicine and the Problem of Governance," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 195-200.

Gazzaniga, Michael. (2004). "Human Being Redux," Science, vol. 304, no. 5669, pp. 388-389.

Gazzaniga, Michael. (2006). "All Clones are not the Same," New York Times, February 16.

George, Robert. (1993). Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality. Oxford : Clarendon Press.

George, Robert. (1999). In Defense of Natural Law. Oxford : Clarendon Press.

George, Robert, and Alfonso Gomez-Lobo. (2005). "The Moral Status of the Human Embryo," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 201-210.

Glendon, Mary Ann. (1991). Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse. New York: Free Press.

Gomez-Lobo, Alfonso. (2002). Morality and the Human Goods: An Introduction to Natural Law Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Hurlbut, William. (2005). "Alterned Nuclear Transfer as a Morally Acceptable Means for the Procurement of Human Embryonic Stem Cells," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 211-228.

Kass, Leon. (1985). Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs. New York: Free Press.

Kass , Leon . (1996). “The Troubled Dream of Nature as a Moral Guide,” Hastings Center Report , vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 22-24.

Kass , Leon . (1997). “The End of Courtship,” available at: http://www.ldolphin.org/endcourtship.

Kass , Leon , and James Wilson. (1998). The Ethics of Human Cloning. Washington , DC : AEI Press.

Kass, Leon. (2002). Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity. San Francisco: Encounter Books.

Kass , Leon . (2004). “We Don’t Play Politics with Science,” Washington Post , March 3, p. A27.

Kass, Leon. (2003). The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis. New York: Free Press.

Kass, Leon. (2003). " Biotechnology: A House Divided," The Public Interest, no. 150 (Winter), pp. 38-62.

Kass, Leon. (2003). " The Public's Stake," The Public Interest, no. 150 (Winter), pp. 38-41.

Kass , Leon . (2004). “Biotech and the New Babel,” New Perspectives Quarterly , vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 48-60.

Kass, Leon. (2004). "We Don't Play Politics with Science," Washington Post, March 3, p. A27.

Kass, Leon. (2004). "Playing Politics with the Sick," Washington Post, October 8, p. A35.

Kass , Leon . (2005). “Reflections on Public Bioethics: A View from the Trenches,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal , vol. 15, no. 3, 221-250.

Kass , Leon . (2006). “Forbidding Science: Some Beginning Reflections,” presented by Prof. Jane Maienschein on Kass’ behalf at the conference “Forbidding Science: Balancing Freedom, Innovation, Security, and Precaution,” Arizona State University , January 12, 2006 . A copy is available at: http://www.law.asu.edu/files/Kass_1-12-06.pdf.

Krauthammer, Charles. (2004). "Why Lines Must be Drawn," Time, August 23, p. 78.

Lawler, Peter. (2002). Aliens in America : The Strange Truth about our Souls . Wilmington , DE : ISI Books.

May, William. (2005). "The President's Council on Bioethics - my take on some of its Deliberations," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 229-240.

Meilaender, Gilbert. (1995). Body, Soul, and Bioethics. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.

Meilaender, Gilbert. (2004). "The Politics of Bioethics: In Defense of the Kass Council," The Weekly Standard, vol. 9, no. 30, pp. 13-14.

Meilaender, Gilbert, and Robert George. (2006). "That Thing in a Petri Dish," New York Times, February 21.

Rowley, Janet, Elizabeth Blackburn, Michael Gazzaniga, and Daniel Foster. (2002). "Harmful Moratorium on Stem Cell Research," Science, vol. 297, p. 1957.

Sandel, Michael. (1982). Liberalism and the Limits of Justice. London: Cambridge University Press.

Sandel, Michael. (2004). "The Case Against Perfection," The Atlantic Monthly, April, pp. 51-62.

Sandel, Michael. (2005). "The Ethical Implications of Human Cloning," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 241-247.

Schaub, Diana. (2003). "Slavery Plus Abortion," The Public Interest, no. 150 (Winter), pp. 41-46.

Schaub, Diana. (2004). "Bioethics and the Constitution," The Public Interest, no. 156 (Summer), pp. 51-70.

Wilson, James Q. (2005). “On Leon Kass and Bioethics,” available at http://www.techcentralstation.com/031705G.html.

Special journal issues devoted to the Council:

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 48, no. 2, 2005. "The President's Council on Bioethics: 2002-2004."

The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, 2005. "The President's Council on Bioethics and Approaches to Public Deliberation Taken by National Bioethics Commissions."

The New Atlantis, no. 4, 2004. "Symposium: Biotechnology and the Good Life."

The Public Interest, no. 150, Winter 2003. “Biotechnology: A House Divided."