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Compilation of Federal Ethics Laws
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Senate Document 112-1. Senate Manual, Containing the Standing Rules, Orders, Laws, and Resolutions of the United States Senate, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Ordnance of 1787, and the Constitution of the United States.
Compilation of Federal Ethics Laws
By: Office of Government Ethics
GPO Stock # 052-003-01497-1 ISBN: 9780160891878
Includes all provisions signed into law through January 4, 2011.
Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States, One Hundred Twelfth Congress
By: House
GPO Stock # 052-071-01542-6 ISBN: 9780160887581
House Document 111-157.
The Changing Moral Focus of Newborn Screening: An Ethical Analysis by the President's Council on Bioethics, December 2008
By: President's Council On Bioethics
GPO Stock # 017-023-00222-8 ISBN: 9780160879029
Provides the background information every parent needs in order to understand the issues and to make informed choices about genetic screening. Describes how the change in policy to include screening for untreatable as well as treatable diseases came about. Provides basic information about the techniques of screening, the practical and ethical choices parents must face, and the public policies behind those choices.
Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper by the President's Council on Bioethics
By: President's Council On Bioethics
GPO Stock # 017-023-00223-6 ISBN: 9780160879036
December 2008. Primarily concerned with a careful analysis of the ethical questions raised by the neurological standard, i.e. the clinical determination of "whole brain death." Concludes that the neurological standard remains valid. Seeks to illuminate the issues at the center of the renewed debate about the inherently perplexing problems of determining human death in an age of life-sustaining technologies.
Monitoring Stem Cell Research: A Report of the President's Council on Bioethics
By: President's Council on Bioethics
GPO Stock # 017-023-00220-1 ISBN: 9780160879005
January 2004. Summarizes some of the more interesting and significant recent developments, both in the basic science and medical applications of stem cell research and in the related ethical, legal, and policy discussions. Seeks to shed light on where we are now: ethically, legally, scientifically, and medically, in order that the President, the Congress, and the nation may be better informed as they consider where we should go in the future.
Reproduction and Responsibility, The Regulation of New Biotechnologies: A Report of the President's Council on Bioethics
By: President's Council on Bioethics
GPO Stock # 017-023-00221-0 ISBN: 9780160879012
March 2004. Purpose is to advise the President on bioethical issues related to advances in biomedical science and technology. Undertakes fundamental inquiry into the human and moral significance of developments in biomedical and behavioral science and technology. Explores specific ethical and policy questions related to these developments. Provides a forum for a national discussion of bioethical issues. Facilitates a greater understanding of bioethical issues.
Interrogation: World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq
By: Defense Dept., National Defense Intelligence College
GPO Stock # 008-000-01017-0 ISBN: 9781932946239
By John A. Wahlquist, et al. This fascinating volume adds historical and practical context going back to U.S. policy and practice in interrogations during World War II, the Vietnam conflict, and the most recent U.S. war in Iraq. The book contributes to the high-profile public dialogue on how U.S. military and civilian agencies can best obtain information from prisoners of war and other categories of legal and illegal combatants without compromising the principles upon which the nation was founded.
Office of Congressional Ethics, United States House Of Representatives: Report and Findings Transmitted to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, August 6, 2009
By: House, Office of Congressional Ethics
GPO Stock # 052-070-07573-2 ISBN: 9780160846250
Review No. 09-7000. Released publicly pursuant to H. Res. 695 of the 110th Congress, as Amended. Addressed a possible conflict of interest regarding witness testimony at a hearing on "The State of the Renewable Fuels Industry in the Current Economy", March 4, 2009. 111th Congress, 1st Session. Jacket 51-611.
Inquiry Into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody: Report, November 20, 2008
By: Senate, Committee on Armed Services
GPO Stock # 052-070-07551-1 ISBN: 9780160831690
S. Prt. 110-54. Reports on the Committee on Armed Services' inquiry into the treatment of Middle Eastern detaineees in United States custody. Unclassified. Committee Print. 110th Congress, 2d Session.
