Ethics for Bioengineering Scientists: Treating Data as Clients

ISBN-13: 9781032052359 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 318 str.

Howard Winet

Opis

This book introduces bioengineers who must generate and/or report scientific data to the ethical challenges they will face in preserving the integrity of their data. It provides the perspective of reaching ethical decisions via pathways that treat data as clients to whom they owe a responsibility.

Spis treści

1. Bioengineering and ethics: Objective data vs. subjective reason.  2. Does ethical behavior have a biological foundation?  3. Moral analysis: Philosophical foundations of ethical action.  4. Moral analysis: Deriving a moral decision.  5. Separating professional from lay ethics.  6. Engineering ethics.  7. Medical ethics.  8. Bioengineering scientist ethics.  9. Ethics of research with non-human animals.  10. Health professionals and historic human research ethics.  11. Health professionals and modern human research ethics.  12. Medical product development and the FDA.  13. Ethics of medical product failure and the courts.  Appendix A: Suggested Debate format.  Appendix B: Informed Consent.  Appendix C: Advanced Care Directive.  Appendix D: UCLA Policy 993.  Appendix E: Significant events in the history of human experimentation.  Appendix F: Examples for Safe Medical Devices Act report incidents.

O autorze

Howard Winet PhD is an Adjunct Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering at University of California, Los Angeles.