Title :
Remarks on ethical issues in biomedical engineering
Author :
Golnik, Natalia ; Palko, Tadeusz
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mechatronics, Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Poland
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;
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
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7612-9
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053486
