Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
CHAPTER
2
Moral and Ethical Issues
Joseph D. Bronzino, PhD, PE
OUTLINE
2.1 Morality and Ethics: A Definition
of Terms
2.9 Regulation of Medical Device
Innovation
36
62
2.2 Two Moral Norms: Beneficence
and Nonmaleficence
2.10 Marketing Medical Devices
64
44
2.11 Ethical Issues in Feasibility
Studies
2.3 Redefining Death
45
65
2.4 The Terminally Ill Patient and
Euthanasia
2.12 Ethical Issues in Emergency Use
67
49
2.13 Ethical Issues in Treatment Use
70
2.5 Taking Control
52
2.14 The Role of the Biomedical
Engineer in the FDA Process
2.6 Human Experimentation
53
71
2.7 Definition and Purpose of
Experimentation
2.15 Exercises
72
55
Suggested Readings
73
2.8 Informed Consent
57
AFTER COMPLETING THIS CHAPTER, STUDENTS WILL BE
ABLE TO:
Define and distinguish between the terms
morals
Present the codes of ethics for the medical
profession, nursingprofession, andbiomedical
engineering.
Identify the modern moral dilemmas,
including redefining death, deciding how
ethics.
Present the rationale underlying two
major philosophical schools of thought:
utilitarianism
and
and
nonconsequentialism
.
