Biomedical ethics for engineers : ethics and decision making in biomedical and biosystem engineering /
Saved in:
| Author / Creator: | Vallero, Daniel A. |
|---|---|
| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2007. |
| Description: | xxiii, 408 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The biomedical engineering series Biomedical engineering series (Amsterdam, Netherlands) |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6368730 |
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
- Professional Trust
- Codes of Ethics: Words to Live By
- Discussion Box: The Code of Hammurabi
- Limitations of Codes of Ethics
- Risk Shifting: Organochlorine Pesticides
- Right of Professional Conscience
- Groupthink and the Right of Conscience
- Animals and Engineers
- Teachable Moment: Confined Animal Feeding Operations and the Moral Standing of Animals
- Making Ethical Decisions in Engineering
- Discussion Box: Four Persons Who Changed the Way We Think about Nature
- John Muir
- Rachel Carson
- Christopher Stone
- Gaylord Nelson
- Notes and Commentary
- Chapter 5. Bioethical Research and Technological Development
- Beyond Regulation
- Integrity
- Teachable Moment: The Therapeutic Misconception
- The Experiment
- The Hypothetico-Deductive Method
- Research Conflict of Interest
- Teachable Moment: Truth and Turtles
- Professionalism
- Technology: Friend and Foe
- Teachable Moment: Medical Device Risk
- Risk Homeostasis and the Theory of Offsetting Behavior
- Artifacts
- Automation and Mechanization of Medicine
- Professional Consideration: Do Engineers Have Patients?
- Technological Reliability
- Low Tech Engineering
- Information Technology
- The Ethics of Nanotechnology
- Notes and Commentary
- Chapter 6. Bioethical Success and Failure
- Teachable Moment: Engineering Measurement
- Measurements of Success and Failure
- Technological Success and Failure
- Risk as a Bioethical Concept
- Safety, Risk, and Reliability in Design
- Probability: The Mathematics of Risk and Reliability
- Discussion Box: Choose Your Risk
- Reliability: An Ethics Metric
- Reducing Risks
- Risk as an Ethical Concept
- Risk-Based Ethics: The Syllogism Revisited
- Causation
- Biographical Box: Sir Bradford Hill
- Notes and Commentary
- Chapter 7. Analyzing Bioethical Success and Failure
- Medical Device Failure: Human Factors Engineering
- Teachable Moment: How to Analyse a Medical Device
- Utility as a Measure of Success
- Failure Type 1. Mistakes and Miscalculations
- Failure Type 2. Extraordinary Natural Circumstances
- Failure Type 3. Critical Path
- Failure Type 4. Negligence
- Failure Type 5. Lack of Imagination
- Bioterrorism: The Engineer's Response
- Dual Use and Primacy of Science
- Social Response of Engineering to Terrorism
- Success Paradigms
- Characterizing Success and Failure
- Accountability
- Value
- Case Analysis
- Notes and Commentary
- Chapter 8. Justice and Fairness as Biomedical and Biosystem Engineering Concepts
- Fairness and Distributive Justice
- Discussion Box: Harm and the Hippocratic Oath
- Teachable Moment: Disposal of a Slightly Hazardous Waste
- Solution and Discussion
- Though Experiment: Who Is More Ethical?
- Professional Virtue and Empathy
- Teachable Moment: Albert Schweitzer and the Reverence for Life
- Reason
- Teachable Moment: Abortion, Fairness, and Justice
- Utility
- Teachable Moment: Utility and Futility
- Precaution as a Bioethical Concept
- Discussion Box: The Tragedy of the Commons
- Notes and Commentary
- Chapter 9. Sustainable Bioethics
- Green Is Good
- Sustainability
- Teachable Moment: Rational Ethics and Thermodynamics
- Life Cycles and Concurrent Engineering
- Case Study Box: SIDS, A Concurrent Engineering Failure
- Discussion Box: The Coffee Cup Debate
- The Bioethics of Combustion
- Systematic Bioethics
- Seveso Plant Disaster
- Poverty and Pollution
- Interdependence
- Notes and Commentary
- Chapter 10. Engineering Wisdom
- Ethics and Chaos
- Macroethics and Microethics
- Future Directions
- The Humble Engineer
- Notes and Commentary
- Epilogue: Practical Bioethics
- Shutting Down the Pump
- Objectivity and Finding Truth
- Moral Courage
- Bioethics Resources for the Engineer
- Suggested Readings
- Ethics of Emerging Technologies
- Ethical Analysis, Reasoning, and Decision Making
- Macroethics and Societal Risk
- Teaching Engineering Macroethics
- Teaching Engineering Microethics
- Useful Websites
- Notes and Commentary
- Appendix 1.
- Appendix 2.
- Glossary of Terms Likely to Be Encountered in Bioethical Decision Making
- Name Index
- Subject Index
