Biomedical Engineering
By: Gabrielle Shook
What is Biomedical Engineering?
Why is Biomedical Engineering important to our society?
How does Biomedical Engineering affect us?
Ethical Concerns of Biomedical Engineering:
The following concerns are not solely used by the engineers. This field of work is still new and trying to address all ethical issues as they come across.
Cloning- Why is one child or animal more able to be cloned than another?
Use of aborted fetuses- Are parents aborting children to be able to be used for research? Are engineers going too far with using aborted babies?
Issues in genetics- How far is too far in research? Are these issues in genetics able to be fixed with cloning and replacing or fixing a gene?
Relation to Other Fields of Science
The Time Period of Research: Then and Now
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