A Home for the National Bioethics Advisory Commission Electronic Archive

ON 3 OCTOBER 2001, the National Bioethics Advisory Com-mission (NBAC), an 18-member advisory board established by Executive Order 12975 on 3 October 1995 and chartered on 20 October 1999 to make recommendations to the National Science and Technology Council, ceased operation. The National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature was selected to preserve the electronic archive and copies of printed documentation of NBAC's work. Consequently, NBAC's former website is now available in its entirety at: http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/nbac. The print documents have been added to the collection of archival materials at the NRC.

Providing a historical record of the work of the Commission, the website is a wealth of background material and substantive documentation arising from NBAC's deliberations. The full text of summary reports, recommendations, and commissioned papers, as well as agendas and transcripts of all public meetings, can be accessed at no cost. A detailed list of reports follows:

Ethical and Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants, August 2001: Summary; Volume I: Report and Recommendations--Full Report; Volume II: Commissioned Papers;

Ethical and Policy Issues in International Research: Clinical Trials in Developing Countries: Press Release, 30 April 2001; Volume I: Report and Recommendations--Full Report, April 2001; Executive Summary: Traduction Français and Interpretacion Español; Volume II: Commissioned Papers, May 2001;

1998-1999 Biennial Report;

Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research, September 1999: Executive Summary; Volume I: Report and Recommendations; Volume II: Commissioned Papers; Statement by the President, 13 September 1999; Volume III: Religious Perspectives;

Research Involving Human Biological Materials: Ethical Issues and Policy Guidance: Letter of Transmittal; Executive Summary; Volume I: Report and Recommendations; Volume II: Commissioned Papers;

Research Involving Persons with Mental Disorders That May Affect Decisionmaking Capacity, December 1998: Final Report; Volume II: Commissioned Papers;

Cloning Human Beings, June 1997: Volume I: Report and Recommendations; Volume II: Commissioned Papers; and

Index to NBAC Reports, October 2000.

We invite you to explore this new addition to the NRC website and to review other resources availabxle at http://bioethics.georgetown.edu.

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