Il 7 aprile 2010 Obama ha nominato i dieci membri per la Commissione Presidenziale Bioethics, thus completing the renewal process itself began in November 2009, when he was named Amy Gutmann and James Wagner as director and deputy director respectively of the Commission (to read about the post of 2 December 2009 on this very blog: http:/ / scienzaedemocrazia.blogspot.com/2009/12/poteri-legislativi-per-la-nuova.html).
Among the ten members of the committee also included Christine Grady, head of the Department of Bioethics at the NIH. The complete list of committee members can be read here: http://www.scienceprogress.org/2010/04/practical-science/. The
'PCSBI' (which stands for "Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues") becomes officially The sixth body established by Congress or the White House to advise the government on ethical or policy related to life sciences.
Obama is expected, as was clear by the appointment of Amy Gutmann (who has a background in political philosophy, and bioethics), the Commission focused its work on policy initiatives and proposing practical solutions, not just topics philosophy. This emphasis, if it were implemented, would be a distinction marked with respect to the work of the previous commission, the Council on Bioethics by President Bush (notice, his name was different: President's Council on Bioethics), whose job was to produce reviews theoretical, without propose how to implement in practice. Eric
Meslim, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Indiana, said a positive trend towards greater pragmatism in his article on 'Science Progress,' which can be read here: http://www.scienceprogress.org / 2010/05/problem-solvers /.
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