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September 12-13, 2002
Meeting Agenda


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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
9:00 am Session 1: Toward a "Richer Bioethics" 4: Science and Society.
Discussion of Hans Jonas' essay, "Philosophical Reflections on Experimenting with Human Subjects."

10:30 am Break

10:45 am Session 2: Regulation 6: Institutional Review Boards (IRBs).
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Center for Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health.

12:15 pm Lunch

1:45 pm Session 3: Enhancement 3: Happiness and Sadness: Depression and the Pharmacological
Elevation of Mood.

Peter D. Kramer, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Brown University.

3:15 pm Break

3:30 pm Session 4: Enhancement 4: Happiness and Sadness: Depression and the Pharmacological
Elevation of Mood.

Carl Elliott, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota.

5:00 pm Session 5: Public Comments.

6:00 pm Adjournment

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
8:30 am Session 6: Regulation 7: International Models (Germany).
Spiros Simitis, Chairman, German National Ethics Council.

10:30 am     Break.

10:45 Session 7: Enhancement 5: Genetic Enhancement of Muscle.
H. Lee Sweeney, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania.

12:15 pm Adjournment


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