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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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Past Commissions and Advisory Boards

This Appendix is an expansion of the background information on some of the past commissions and advisory boards that have served to consider social, ethical, or legal issues related to advances in biomedicine. These are the:

  • Ethics Advisory Board of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (DHEW);

  • National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (National Commission);

  • President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research (President's Commission);

  • NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee;

  • Working Group on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project (ELSI Working Group);

  • Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee;

  • New York State Task Force on Life and the Law; and

  • New Jersey Bioethics Commission.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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ETHICS ADVISORY BOARD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE (DHEW)

Dates of operation: 1978-1980

Sponsorship/appointing authority: DHEW Secretary

Function: to consult on all DHEW programs and policies, review of waiver submissions for proposals of fetal research potentially exceeding existing standards of risk, and advise the DHEW Secretary regarding such projects' approval or disapproval

Scope: DHEW only

Membership characteristics: rotating; included attorneys, theologians, and physicians

Members:

Chairman

James C. Gaither, J.D. Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson and Tatum San Francisco, California

Vice Chairman

David A. Hamburg, M.D. President, Carnegie Corporation of New York Member, Institute of Medicine

Members

Sissela Bok, Ph.D. Lecturer in Medical Ethics Harvard University

Jack T. Conway Senior Vice President United Way of America Washington, D.C.

Henry W. Foster, M.D. Professor and Chairman Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Meharry Medical College

Donald A. Henderson, M.D. Dean, School of Hygiene and Public Health Johns Hopkins University

Maurice Lazarus Chairman, Finance Committee Federated Department Stores, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts

Richard A. McCormick, S.T.D. Professor of Christian Ethics Kennedy Institute for the Study of Reproduction and Bioethics Georgetown University Washington, D.C.

Robert F. Murray, M.D. Chief, Division of Medical Genetics College of Medicine Howard University

Mitchell W. Spellman, M.D. Dean for Medical Services and Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School

Daniel C. Tosteson, M.D. Dean, Harvard Medical School

Agnes N. Williams, LL.B. Potomac, Maryland

Eugene M. Zwieback, M.D. Surgeon in Private Practice Omaha, Nebraska

Report:

Report and Conclusions: Support of Research Involving Human In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer, 1979

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS OF BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH (NATIONAL COMMISSION)

Dates of operation: 1974-1978

Sponsorship/appointing authority: U.S. Congress (under National

Research Act of 1974, P.L. 93-348); appointments made by the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (DHEW)

Function: to identify basic ethical principles that should underlie the conduct of biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects, develop guidelines that should be followed in such research to assure that it is conducted in accordance with such principles, and make recommendations to the DHEW Secretary regarding the development of regulations

Scope: limited to research conducted or funded by the DHEW, study topics were congressionally mandated

Membership characteristics: 5 scientists, 3 lawyers, 2 ethicists, and 1 social worker

Members:

Chairperson

Kenneth J. Ryan, M.D. Chief of Staff Boston Hospital for Women

Members

Joseph V. Brady, Ph.D. Professor of Behavioral Biology Johns Hopkins University

Robert E. Cooke, M.D. President Medical College of Pennsylvania

Dorothy I. Height President National Council of Negro Women, Inc.

Albert R.Jonsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Bioethics University of California, San Francisco

Patricia King, J.D. Associate Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center

Karen Lebacqz, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Christian Ethics Pacific School of Religion

David W. Louisell, J.D. Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley

Donald W. Seldin, M.D. Professor and Chairman Department of Internal Medicine University of Texas at Dallas

Eliot Stellar, Ph.D. Provost of the University Professor of Physiological Psychology University of Pennsylvania

Robert H. Turtle, LL.B. Attorney VomBaur, Coburn, Simmons & Turtle Washington, D.C.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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Reports:

Report and Recommendations: Research on the Fetus, 1975

Appendix to Report and Recommendations: Research on the Fetus, 1975

Proceedings of the March 14-15, 1975 Meeting

The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research, 1978

Appendix (Volumes I and II) to The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research, 1978

Report and Recommendations: Research Involving Prisoners, 1976

Appendix to Report and Recommendations: Research Involving Prisoners, 1976

Report and Recommendations: Research Involving Children, 1977

Appendix to Report and Recommendations: Research Involving Children, 1977

Report and Recommendations: Psychosurgery, 1977

Appendix to Report and Recommendations: Psychosurgery, 1977

Disclosure of Research Information Under the Freedom of Information Act, 1977

Report and Recommendations: Special Study: Implications of Advances in Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1978

Report and Recommendations: Research Involving Those Institutionalized as Mentally Infirm, 1978

Appendix to Report and Recommendations: Research Involving Those Institutionalized as Mentally Infirm, 1978

Report and Recommendations: Institutional Review Boards, 1978

Appendix to Report and Recommendations: Institutional Review Boards, 1978

Report and Recommendations: Ethical Guidelines for Delivery of Health Services by DHEW, 1978

Appendix to Report and Recommendations: Ethical Guidelines for Delivery of Health Services by DHEW, 1978

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION FOR THE STUDY OF ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH (PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION)

Dates of Operation: January 1980-March 1983

Sponsorship/appointing authority: U.S. Congress (under: Biomedical Research and Training Amendments of 1978, P.L. 95-622); appointments made by the President

Function: to advise the President and Congress on bioethical issues

Scope: report topics mandated by Congress, but commission also had authority to undertake studies upon its own initiative

Membership characteristics: rotating; as specified by law, there were 11 active commissioners at a time, 3 of whom were active in the practice of medicine, 3 biomedical or behavioral researchers, and 5 members from other fields

Members:

Chairman

Morris B. Abram, J.D., L.L.D. New York, New York (July 1979-March 1983)

Members

H. Thomas Ballantine, Jr., M.D., M.S., D.Sc. Harvard Medical School (Aug. 1982-March 1983)

George R. Dunlop, M.D. University of Massachusetts (Feb. 1982-March 1983)

Renee C. Fox, Ph.D., D.H.L. University of Pennsylvania (July 1979-Feb. 1982)

Mario Garcia-Palmieri, M.D. University of Puerto Rico (July 1979-Aug. 1982)

Franes K. Graham, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (May 1980-Jan. 1982)

Bruce Kelton Jacobson, M.D. Southwestern Medical School Fort Worth, Texas (Aug. 1982-March 1983)

Albert R. Jonsen, S.T.M., Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco (July 1979-Aug. 1982)

Patricia A. King, J.D. Georgetown University (July 1979-May 1980)

Mathilde Krim, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (July 1979-Oct. 1981)

Donald N. Medearis, M.D. Harvard University (July 1979-Feb. 1982)

John J. Moran, B.S. Houston, Texas (Aug. 1982-March 1983)

Arno G. Motulsky, M.D. University of Washington (July 1979-March 1983)

Daher B. Rahi, D.O. St. Clair Shores, Michigan (Feb. 1982-March 1983)

Fritz C. Redlich, M.D. University of California, Los Angeles (July 1979-Feb. 1980)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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Anne A. Scitovsky, M.A. Palo Alto Medical Research Foundation (July 1979-Aug. 1982)

Seymour Siegel, D.H.L. Jewish Theological Seminary New York, New York (Feb. 1982-March 1983)

Lynda Hare Smith, B.S. Colorado Springs, Colorado (March 1982-March 1983)

Kay Toma, M.D. Bell, California (Aug. 1982-March 1983)

Charles J. Walker, M.D. Nashville, Tennessee (July 1979-March 1983)

Carolyn A. Williams, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Sept. 1980-Aug. 1982)

Executive Director

Alexander Morgan Capron, LL.B. (Dec. 1979-March 1983)

Deputy Director

Barbara Mishkin, M.A., J.D. (Jan. 1980-Jan. 1983)

Assistant Directors

MEDICINE

Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A. (Jan. 1981-March 1983)

LAW

Alan Meisel, J.D. (Aug, 1982-Dec. 1982)

Alan J. Weisbard, J.D. (Jan. 1980-Aug. 1982)

Professional Staff

ECONOMICS

Mary Ann Baily, Ph.D. (March 1980-Feb. 1983)

ETHICS

Dan Brock, Ph.D. (July 1981-July 1982)

Allen Buchanan, Ph.D. (Jan. 1982-Dec. 1982)

HEALTH POLICY

Kathryn Kelly, M.S., M.S.W. (Oct. 1981-Dec. 1982)

Susan Morgan (Feb. 1981-Feb. 1983)

SOCIOLOGY

Marian Osterweiss, Ph.D. (Jan. 1981-Jan. 1983)

PUBLIC HEALTH

Renie Schapiro, M.P.H. (March 1980-Feb. 1983)

ETHICS

Daniel Wikler, Ph.D. (Sept. 1980-Aug. 1981)

Continuing Consultants

SOCIOLOGY

Bradford H. Gray, Ph.D. (Aug. 1981-Dec. 1982)

ETHICS

Dorothy E. Vawter (March 1980-Feb. 1983)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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Reports:

Defining Death: A Report on the Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues in the Determination of Death, 1981

Protecting Human Subjects: The Adequacy and Uniformity of Federal Rules and their Implementation, 1981

Whistleblowing in Biomedical Research: Policies and Procedures for Responding to Reports of Misconduct, 1981

Making Health Care Decisions: A Report on the Ethical and Legal Implications of Informed Consent in the Patient-Practitioner Relationship. Volume 1: Report, 1982

Making Health Care Decisions: A Report on the Ethical and Legal Implications of Informed Consent in the Patient-Practitioner Relationship. Volume 2: Appendices, Empirical Studies of Informed Consent, 1982

Making Health Care Decisions: A Report on the Ethical and Legal Implications of Informed Consent in the Patient-Practitioner Relationship. Volume 3: Appendices, Studies of the Foundations of Informed Consent, 1982

Splicing Life: A Report on the Social and Ethical Issues of Genetic Engineering with Human Beings, 1982

Compensating for Research Injuries: The Ethical and Legal Implications for Programs to Redress Injured Subjects, 1982

Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment: A Report on the Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues in Treatment Decisions, 1983

Implementing Human Research Regulations: Second Biennial Report of the Adequacy and Uniformity of Federal Rules and Policies, and of their Implementation, for the Protection of Human Subjects, 1983

Screening and Counseling for Genetic Conditions: The Ethical, Social, and Legal Implications of Genetic Screening, Counseling, and Education Programs, 1983

Securing Access to Health Care: The Ethical Implications of Differences in the Availability of Health Services. Volume 1: Report, 1983

Securing Access to Health Care: The Ethical Implications of Differences in the Availability of Health Services. Volume 2: Appendices, Socio cultural and Philosophical Studies, 1983

Securing Access to Health Care: The Ethical Implications of Differences in the Availability of Health Services. Volume 3: Appendices, Empirical, Legal, and Conceptual Studies, 1983

Summing Up: Final Report on Studies of the Ethical and Legal Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1983

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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NIH RECOMBINANT DNA ADVISORY PANEL

Dates of operation: authorized in February 1975, ongoing

Sponsorship/appointing authority: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Institutes of Health, Office of Recombinant DNA Activities

Function: to provide guidance to the NIH on issues in the field of recombinant DNA research, review protocols for federally funded recombinant DNA research, and develop guidelines for the conduct of this research

Scope: research conducted or supported by the NIH

Membership characteristics: size has ranged from 15 to 40 members;

today RDAC has 24 members, including lawyers, ethicists, political scientists, researchers, and clinicians

Members:

Chairman

LeRoy B. Walters, Ph.D. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Georgetown University Washington, D.C.

Members

Constance E. Brinckerhoff, Ph.D. Dartmouth Medical School Hanover, New Hampshire

Nancy L. Buc, L.L.B. Well, Gotshal, and Manges Washington, D.C.

Alexander M. Capron, L.L.B. The Law Center University of Southern California Los Angeles, California

Ira H. Carmen, Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois

Gary A. Chase, Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland

Patricia A. DeLon, Ph.D. University of Delaware Newark, Delaware

Roy H. Doi, Ph.D. University of California Davis, California

Krishna R. Dronamraju, Ph.D. Foundation for Genetic Research Houston, Texas

E. Peter Geiduschek, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego LaJolla, California

Mariann Grossman Institute of Human Gene Therapy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Robert Haselkorn, Ph.D. University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois

Susan S. Hirano, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin

Donald J. Krogstad, M.D. Tulane University School of Medicine New Orleans, Louisiana

Abbey S. Meyers National Organization for Rare Disorders New Fairfield, Connecticut

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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Dusty A. Miller, Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, Washington

Arno G. Motulsky, M.D. University of Washington Medical School Seattle, Washington

Robertson Parkman, M.D. Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles Los Angeles, California

Leonard E. Post, Ph.D. Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Division Ann Arbor, Michigan

Marian G. Secundy, Ph.D. Howard University College of Medicine Washington, D.C.

Brian R. Smith, M.D. Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, Connecticut

Stephen E. Straus, M.D. National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland

Doris T. Zallen, Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia

Executive Secretary

Nelson A.Wivel, M.D. Office of Recombinant DNA Activities National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland

Reports:

Points to Consider in the Design and Submission of Human Somatic-Cell Gene Therapy Protocols, 1985 (Human Gene Therapy Subcommittee)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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WORKING GROUP ON ETHICAL, LEGAL, AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT (ELSI WORKING GROUP)

Dates of operation: 1988, ongoing

Sponsorship/appointing authority: NIH Center for Human Genome Research and the Department of Energy

Function: to stimulate research on issues through grant making; to refine the research agenda through workshops, commissioned papers, and invited lectures; to solicit public input through town meetings and public testimony; to support the development of educational materials; to encourage international collaboration in this area. In terms of policy-making, the goals of the ELSI Working Group are to clarify the ethical, legal, and social consequences of mapping and sequencing the human genome through a program of targeted research; to develop policy options at professional, institutional, governmental, and societal levels to ensure that genetic information is used to maximize the benefit to individuals and society; to improve understanding of the issues and policy options through educational initiatives at public, professional, and policy-making levels; and, to stimulate public discussion of the issues and policy options.

Scope: all social, legal, and ethical issues relating to the Human Genome Project

Membership characteristics: with the exception of the chairperson, members are ad hoc technical consultants representing basic and clinical genetics, law, and ethics

Members:

Chairperson

Nancy Wexler, Ph.D. Hereditary Disease Foundation, and Department of Neurology and Psychiatry College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University New York

Members

Jonathan Beckwith, Ph.D. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts

Robert Cook-Deegan, M.D. Institute of Medicine National Academy of Sciences Washington, D.C.

Patricia King,J.D. Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center Washington, D.C.

Victor McKusick, M.D. Division of Medical Genetics Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, Maryland

Robert F. Murray, Jr., M.D. Department of Pediatrics Howard University College of Medicine Washington, D.C.

Thomas H. Murray, Ph.D. Center for Biomedical Ethics School of Medicine Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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Reports:

Workshop on the Introduction of New Genetic Tests, 1990

Genetic Discrimination and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 1991

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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THE BIOMEDICAL ETHICS ADVISORY COMMITTEE (BEAC)

Dates of operation: September 1988-September 1989

Sponsorship/appointing authority: Congressional Biomedical Ethics Board (BEB); (under Health Research Extension Act, May 1985)

Function: to study and report to Congress on a continuing basis on ethical issues arising from health care delivery and biomedical and behavioral research

Scope: mandated by BEB; first three reports mandated were on (1) implications of human genetic engineering, (2) fetal research, and (3) nutrition and hydration in dying patients

Membership characteristics: 14 members appointed from the fields of law, ethics, biomedical research, and clinical care, including two lay members; appointment process took almost two and a half years

Members:

Julianne Beckett Associate Director for Consumer Affairs National Maternal and Child Health Resource Center University of Iowa

James Bopp,Jr. Esq. Brames, McCormick, Bopp & Abel Terre Haute, Indiana

Watson Allen Bowes,Jr., M.D. Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Alexander Morgan Capron University Professor of Law, Medicine and Public Policy The Law Center University of Southern California

Christine K. Cassel, M.D., F.A.C.P. Chief, Section of Internal Medicine Pritzker School of Medicine University of Chicago

James Franklin Childress, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Religious Studies University of Virginia

Theodore Friedmann. M.D. Center for Genetics Department of Pediatrics University of California School of Medicine San Diego

Ms. Sylvia Drew Ivie Executive Director T.H.E. Clinic for Women, Inc. Los Angeles, California

Reverend Donald G. McCarthy, Ph.D. Church of Saint Antoninus Cincinnati, Ohio

Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D. Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Georgetown University Washington, D.C.

Kenneth N. Rosenbaum, M.D. Childrens' Hospital National Medical Center Washington, D.C.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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Kenneth John Ryan, M.D. Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts

Stanley Burton Troup, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Health Care, and Human Values Department of Internal Medicine University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Members of Congressional Bioethics Board

SENATE MEMBERS

Albert Gore (D-TN), Vice Chair Dale Bumpers (D-AK) David Durenberger (R-MN)

Gordon Humphrey (R-NH)

Edward Kennedy (D-MA)

Lowell Weiker (R-CT)*

HOUSE MEMBERS

Willis Gradison (R-OH), Chair

Thomas Bliley (R-VA) Thomas Luken (D-OH)

J. Roy Rowland (D-GA)

Thomas Tauke (R-IA)

Henry Waxman (D-CA)

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Replaced in 1988 by Don Nickles (R-OK)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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NEW YORK STATE TASK FORCE ON LIFE AND THE LAW

Dates of operation: March, 1985 to present

Sponsorship/appointing authority: New York Governor Mario Cuomo

Function: to develop recommendations for New York State public policy (in the form of proposed legislation, regulation, public education, and other measures) on a wide range of issues arising from recent advances in medical technology; reports seek to inform and focus public debate

Scope: such issues as the determination of death, the withdrawal and withholding of life-sustaining treatment, new reproductive technologies (artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization), surrogate parenting, the treatment of disabled newborns, organ transplantation, and, in a more limited context, abortion

Membership characteristics: 25 members; includes prominent physicians, nurses, lawyers, academics, and representatives of numerous religious communities

Members:

Karl Adler, M.D. Dean, New York Medical College

Richard J. Concannon, Esq. Kelley, Drye & Warren

Karl Adler, M.D. Dean, New York Medical College

Rev. Msgr. John A Alesandro Chancellor, Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Center

John Arras, Ph.D. Clinical Associate Professor of Bioethics Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center

Mario L. Baeza, Esq. Debevoise & plimpton

The Right Rev. David Ball Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Albany

Rabbi J. David Bleich Professor of Talmud, Yeshiva University Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics Benjamin Cardozo School of Law

Evan Calkins, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Emeritus SUNY Buffalo

Richard J. Concannon, Esq. Kelley, Drye & Warren

Myron W. Conovitz, M.D. Attending Physician, North Shore University Hospital Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine Cornell University Medical College

Saul J. Farber, M.D. Dean and Provost Chairman, Department of Medicine New York University School of Medicine

Alan R. Fleishman, M.D. Director, Division of Neonatology Albert Einstein College of Medicine montefiore Medical Center

Samuel Gorovitz, Ph.D. Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Philosophy Syracuse University

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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Jane Greenlaw,J.D., R.N. Director, Division of Medical Humanities University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Beatrix A. Hamburg, M.D. Chairman, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Denise Hanlon, R.N., M.S. Clinical Specialist Rehabilitation and Gerontology SUNY Buffalo, School of Nursing

Rev. Donald W. McKinney First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn Chairman Emeritus, Choice in Dying

Maria I. New, M.D. Chief, Department of Pediatrics New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center

JohnJ. Regan,J.S.D. Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law

Rabbi A. James Rudin National Director of Interreligious Affairs The American Jewish Committee

Rev. Betty Bone Schiess Episcopal Diocese of Central New York

Barbara Shack The New York Civil Liberties Union

Rev. Robert S. Smith Director, Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society SUNY Health Science Center at Stony Brook

Elizabeth W. Stack Commissioner, New York State Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Retarded

Reports:

The Required Request Law, March 1986

Do Not Resuscitate Orders, April 1986

The Determination of Death, July 1986

Life-Sustaining Treatments: Making Decisions and Appointing a Health Care Agent, July 1987

Transplantation in New York State: The Procurement and Distribution of Organs and Tissues, January 1988

Fetal Extrauterine Survivability, January 1988

Surrogate Parenting: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy, May 1988

When Others Must Choose: Deciding for Patients Without Capacity, March 1992

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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NEW JERSEY COMMISSION ON LEGAL AND ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN THE DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE

Dates of operation: 1985 to 1991

Sponsorship/appointing authority: Governor of New Jersey, New Jersey Senate President, and Speaker of the General Assembly

Function: to provide a comprehensive and scholarly examination of the impact of advancing technology on health care decisions and to recommend policies to the governor, legislature, and citizens of New Jersey

Scope: focused on three areas: surrogate motherhood, decision making about medical treatment (especially advance directives), and determination of death

Membership characteristics: 26 members, including 4 legislators, 9 representatives of executive agencies and major statewide professional and health care organizations, as well as representatives from the fields of law, medicine, nursing, science, humanities, theology, and health care administration

Members:

Chairman

Paul W. Armstrong, M.A., J.D., LL.M. Councellor at Law

Members

Sr. Jane Frances Brady President, St. Joseph's Medical Center

Thomas P. Brown, M.A. Acting Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly

The Hon. Gerald Cardinale, D.D.S. Senator-District 39

Diana Czarepuszko, R.N., L.N.H.A. Executive Director, Cheshire Home

Robert W. Deaton Director of Long Term Care Diocese of Camden

Joseph Fennelly, M.D. Vice Chairman, Bioethics Committee Medical Society of New Jersey

J. Richard Goldstein, M.D. President, Stopwatch, Inc.

Noreen Haveron, R.N., B.S.N. Assistant Nursing Supervisor Nutley Nursing Service

Lois Hull Director, Division of Aging

The Hon. C. Richard Kamin Assemblyman-District 23

Rabbi Charles A. Kroloff

Rabbi, Temple Emanu-El

The Hon. David C. Kronick Assemblyman-District 32

Paul Langevin, M.A. Assistant Commissioner for Health Facilities Evaluation

Mary K. Lindner, R.N., M.A. Senior Vice President, Patient Services and Executive Director of Nursing Overlook Hospital

Rita Martin Legislative Director NJ. Citizens Concerned for Life

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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Russell L. Mcintyre, Ph.D. Associate Professor (Medical Ethics) University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Patricia Ann Murphy, R.N., Ph.D. Clinical Specialist (Bereavement) Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

Michael Nevina, M.D. Internist, Chairman, Bioethics Committee Pascack Valley Hospital

Sally Nunn, R.N. Chair, Bioethics Committee Shore Memorial Hospital

Robert L. Pickens, M.D. Chairman, Bioethics Committee Medical Society of New Jersey

David Rogoff, M.S. Director, Haven Hospice John F. Kennedy Medical Center

Rita Marie G. Rondum Member, State Legislative Committee American Association of Retired Persons

Mary S. Strong Chair, Citizens' Committee on Biomedical Ethics

Joseph F. Suozzo, Esq. Assistant Director of Litigation

Edward Tetalman, Esq. Assistant Commissioner for Intergovernmental Affairs

Robert S. Olick, M.A., J.D., Executive Director

Michael Vollen, M.A., Associate Director

Adrienne Asch, M.D., Ph.D., Associate in Social Science and Policy

Anne Reichman Schiff, LL.M., Associate in Law

Ellen B. Friedland, Esq. Consultant

Sally Sulphen, B.A., Administrative Assistant

Reports:

Problems and Approaches in Health Care Decision Making: The New Jersey Experience, 1990

Advance Directives for Health Care: Planning Ahead for Important Health Care Decisions, 1991

The New Jersey Advance Directives for Health Care and Death Acts: Statutes, Commentaries, and Analyses, 1991

After Baby M: The Legal, Ethical, and Social Dimensions of Surrogacy, 1992

Death and the Brain-Damaged Patient, 1992

The New Jersey Advance Directives for Health Care Act (and the Patient Self- Determination Act): A Guidebook for Health Care Professionals, 1992

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Past Commissions and Advisory Boards." Institute of Medicine. 1995. Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4771.
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Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries.

Society's Choices discusses ways for people to handle today's bioethics issues in the context of America's unique history and culture—and from the perspectives of various interest groups.

The book explores how Americans have grappled with specific aspects of bioethics through commission deliberations, programs by organizations, and other mechanisms and identifies criteria for evaluating the outcomes of these efforts. The committee offers recommendations on the role of government and professional societies, the function of commissions and institutional review boards, and bioethics in health professional education and research.

The volume includes a series of 12 superb background papers on public moral discourse, mechanisms for handling social and ethical dilemmas, and other specific areas of controversy by well-known experts Ronald Bayer, Martin Benjamin, Dan W. Brock, Baruch A. Brody, H. Alta Charo, Lawrence Gostin, Bradford H. Gray, Kathi E. Hanna, Elizabeth Heitman, Thomas Nagel, Steven Shapin, and Charles M. Swezey.

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