Remarks on ethical issues in biomedical engineering

Author

Golnik, Natalia ; Palko, Tadeusz

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mechatronics, Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Poland

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

2674

Abstract

Education on medical physics and biomedical engineering has a long tradition in Poland, where the first academic course of medical engineering in the world started in 1946. Our students have several occasions to learn about tradition of the Radium Institute in Warsaw and the role played by Madame Curie, who was admired also for her ethical approach to science. The paper focuses on two "hot" ethical points of student seminars and discussions - a conflict of social needs with economy and ethical problems of radiation protection.

Keywords

biomedical education; professional aspects; radiation protection; ALARA; Madame Curie; Poland; academic course; as low as socially acceptable radiation protection ethics; biomedical engineering education; economy; ethical issues; general public; medical engineering academic course; medical physics education; radiation protection; radiation workers; social needs; student seminars; Biomedical engineering; Educational technology; Ethical aspects; Humans; Mechatronics; Modems; Nuclear electronics; Physics education; Protection; Seminars;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053486

Filename

1053486