Biomedical ethics for engineers : ethics and decision making in biomedical and biosystem engineering / / Daniel A. Vallero

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828428703321
• Autore: Vallero Daniel A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-281-04896-8; 9786611048969; 0-08-047610-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 p.)
• Collana: The biomedical engineering series
• Disciplina: 174/.957
• Soggetti: Biomedical engineering - Moral and ethical aspects; Medical ethics; Bioethics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-362) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Biomedical Ethics for Engineers: Ethics and Decision Making in Biomedical and Biosystem Engineering; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; DONE IS GOOD; STRUCTURE AND PEDAGOGY; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Acknowledgments; Bioethics Questions Posed in Text; Prologue: Bioethics - Discovery through Design; A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO BIOETHICS; ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST CASE ANALYSIS; DRIVER'S EDUCATION ANALOGY; EXAMPLE CASE: PRIMING THE PUMP; CASE ANALYSIS; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Chapter 1 Bioethics: A Creative Approach; THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS; Teachable Moment: Trust; THE PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE EFFECT Teachable Moment: The Engineer as Agent versus Judge; Amy the Engineer; Teachable Moment: Who Was Van Rensselaer Potter?; CREDAT EMPTOR; Teachable Moment: Capital Punishment, Abortion, and the Definition of Human Life; THE GOOD ENGINEER; FEEDBACK AND ENHANCEMENT OF DESIGN; Teachable Moment: The Good Engineer; The Profession of Engineering; ENGINEERING BIOETHICS AND MORALITY; Discussion Box: Ethics and the Butterfly Effect; "SMALL" ERROR AND DEVASTATING OUTCOMES; TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND ECONOMICS; Teachable Moment: The Dismal Scientist versus the Technological Optimist ENGINEERING COMPETENCE; ENGINEERING: BOTH INTEGRATED AND SPECIALIZED; WHO IS A PROFESSIONAL?; WHAT IS TECHNICAL?; SYSTEMATICS: INCORPORATING ETHICS INTO THE DESIGN PROCESS; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Chapter 2 Bioethics and the Engineer; MAJOR BIOETHICAL AREAS; CLONING AND STEM CELL RESEARCH; Teachable Moment: Nanog; HUMAN ENHANCEMENT; PATENTING LIFE; Teachable Moment: Patenting Germplasm; NEUROETHICS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT OF HUMAN RESEARCH; ANIMAL TESTING; Is the Research Worth It?; Systematic Reality Check GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS; Transgenic Species; Food; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: THE ETHICS OF SCALE AND THE SCALE OF ETHICS; TEMPORAL ASPECTS OF BIOETHICAL DECISIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL CASE STUDIES; Agent Orange; Japanese Metal Industries; Minamata Mercury Case; Cadmium and Itai Itai Disease; SCALE IS MORE THAN SIZE; Love Canal; Times Beach; Teachable Moment: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts; ACTIVE ENGINEERING; ETHICAL THEORIES: A PRIMER; Truth; Psychological Aspects of Ethics; Teachable Moment: The Physiome Project: The Macroethics of Engineering toward Health Fairness; Value as a Bioethical and Engineering Concept; Technical Optimism versus Dismal Science; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Chapter 3 An Engineered Future: Human Enhancement; PROFESSIONAL ZEITGEIST: HOW ENGINEERS THINK; IMPROVEMENT VERSUS ENHANCEMENT; Engineering Intuition; Engineers versus Economists; Intuiting Value; Deductive and Inductive Reasoning: Precursors to Intuition; Creativity; MORAL COHERENCE; CREATIVITY AND BIOETHICS; THE ETHICAL QUANDARY OF ENHANCEMENT; SCIENTIFIC DISSENT; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Chapter 4 The Bioethical Engineer
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 improve the means of incorporating a wide array of societal perspectives, without sacrificing sound science and good design principles.Dan Vallero understands that engineering is a profession that profoundly affects the quality of life from the subcellular and nano to the planetary scale. Protect