Critical care decisions in fetal and neonatal medicine: ethical issues
Secretariat
Professor Sandy Thomas (Director)
Dr Catherine Moody
Mr Harald Schmidt
Ms Julia Fox (until March 2005)
Ms Carol Perkins
Ms Catherine Joynson
Ms Caroline Rogers
Mrs Julia Trusler
Mr Mun-Keat Looi (until September 2005)
Ms Elaine Talaat-Abdalla (until June 2005)
Mrs Audrey Kelly-Gardner
Ms Claire Stephens (until March 2006)
The terms of reference of the Council are:
1 to identify and define ethical questions raised by recent advances in biological and medical research in order to respond to, and to anticipate, public concern;
2 to make arrangements for examining and reporting on such questions with a view to promoting public understanding and discussion; this may lead, where needed, to the formulation of new guidelines by the appropriate regulatory or other body;
3 in the light of the outcome of its work, to publish reports; and to make representations, as the Council may judge appropriate.
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