Biomedical ethics for engineers: ethics and decision making in biomedical and biosystem engineering /

Biomedical Ethics for Engineers provides biomedical engineers with a new set of tools and an understanding that the application of ethical measures will seldom reach consensus even among fellow engineers and scientists. The solutions are never completely technical, so the engineer must continue to i...

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Auteur principal: Vallero, Daniel A. (Auteur)
Format: Logiciel eBook
Langue:English
Publié: Amsterdam Elsevier/Academic Press c2007.
Collection:The biomedical engineering series
Biomedical engineering series (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Table des matières:
  • Preface
  • Prologue:
  • Chapter 1: Bioethics: A Creative Approach
  • Chapter 2: Bioethics and the Engineer
  • Chapter 3: An Engineered Future: Human Enhancement
  • Chapter 4: The Bioethical Engineer
  • Chapter 5: Bioethical Research and Technological Development
  • Chapter 6: Safety, Risk and Reliability as Measures of Bioethics
  • Chapter 7: Bioethical Success and Failure
  • Chapter 8: Justice and Fairness as Engineering Concepts
  • Chapter 9: Sustainable Bioethics
  • Chapter 10: Engineering Wisdom
  • Epilogue: Practical Bioethics
  • Bioethics Resources for the Engineer
  • Suggested Readings
  • Useful Websites
  • Appendix 1: National Society of Professional Engineers
  • Code of Ethics for Engineers
  • Appendix 2: Biomedical Engineering Society Code of Ethics.