Bioethics Commissions: Town Meetings with a "Blue, Blue Ribbon"

dc.creator	Poland, Susan	en
dc.date.accessioned	2013-01-18T19:15:04Z	en
dc.date.available	2013-01-18T19:15:04Z	en
dc.date.created	1998-05	en
dc.date.issued	1998-05	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10822/556890	en
dc.description.abstract	Town meetings are characteristic of New England. In theory, a quorum of registered voters in a small municipality meets annually to decide local public policy. In fact, special interests and the town bureaucracy control the meeting. Like a town meeting, a commission (or committee or council) comes into being, whether on an ad hoc or permanent basis, to direct a government function. Bioethics commissions specialize in one area: the intersection of policy with developments, either real or anticipated, in the basic and applied sciences.	en
dc.language	en	en
dc.publisher	Bioethics Research Library, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University	en
dc.subject	Commissions/Councils	en
dc.subject	International/Political Dimensions of Biology and Medicine	en
dc.title	Bioethics Commissions: Town Meetings with a "Blue, Blue Ribbon"	en
dc.type	Article	en

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