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 -- 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 -- 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 Analyze 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 -- Thought 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 National Society of Professional Engineers Code of Ethics for Engineers -- PREAMBLE -- I. FUNDAMENTAL CANONS -- II. RULES OF PRACTICE -- III. PROFESSIONAL OBLIGATIONS -- STATEMENT BY NSPE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE -- Appendix 2 Biomedical Engineering Society Code of Ethics -- BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL OBLIGATIONS -- BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING HEALTH CARE OBLIGATIONS.

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH OBLIGATIONS -- BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING TRAINING OBLIGATIONS -- Glossary of Terms Likely to Be Encountered in Bioethical Decision Making -- NOTE AND COMMENTARY -- Name Index -- Subject Index.