The President’s Council on Bioethics was created by President George W. Bush on November 28, 2001. (The executive order creating the Council is online here.) It was disbanded in June 2009. During those years, the Council held dozens of meetings and discussions under its two chairmen: Dr. Leon R. Kass and Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino. It also released nine original publications — all archived below in PDF format — and one anthology. The full website of the Council is now archived and made available online by Georgetown University’s Bioethics Research Library.
| Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry July 2002
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| Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness October 2003
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| Being Human: Readings from the President’s Council on Bioethics December 2003
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| Monitoring Stem Cell Research January 2004
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| Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies March 2004
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| White Paper: Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells May 2005
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| Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society September 2005
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| Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President’s Council on Bioethics March 2008
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| The Changing Moral Focus of Newborn Screening: An Ethical Analysis by the President’s Council on Bioethics December 2008
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| Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper by the President’s Council on Bioethics December 2008
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In The New Atlantis