INTRODUCTION TO BIOETHICS

Definition

What is ethics???

Morality

right or wrong/good or bad

determine what a person should do

standard of conduct

for himself as well as for the
society and environment

and provides reasons why

general standards of conduct in a society

Ethics

standards of conduct in a particular professional or
institutional branches

bioethics (ethics in biosciences)

other professional ethics

regardless of their
professional or institutional roles

e.g. “don’t lie, cheat, steal,
harm other people, etc.”

Graduates of the program

expand knowledge, be creative and innovative in contributions to the field of biomedical engineering

perform in an ethical and professional manner

  • solving problems in a
    quantitative and systematic fashion
  • based on biomedical engineering knowledge and multidisciplinary perspectives

to minimize the risk when introduce

to guide decisions in complex and difficult morel dilemmas

Will not make an unethical decision, avoid getting fined, losing license, imprisoned.

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Bioethics = Bioscience + Ethics

Bioethics

balance different benefits and risk to living organism

examples

study of ethical issues and decision-making related to living in bioscience

medical/clinical ethics

human/animal research ethics

food ethics

agricultural and environmental ethics

Core bioethical considerations

minimizing harms while maximizing

fairness

respect for persons

not treating some one as a means to an end or goal
ex: kidnapping, extort, blackmail,...

not interfering with a person's ability to make and carry out decision
volunteering to use new products: contact lenses, artificial bone,...

balancing harms (or burdens) and benefits

"utilitarianism" (central to the ethical approach)

"first of all, do no harm" or "do good"

distributive justice

social justice

Please note that fairness does not necessarily entail equal shares; it usually depends on other factors, too.

If in these case, ethic on in ethics ???

Other issues
plagiarism, corruption, misconduct, intellectual property (IP), privacy, confidentiality, conflict of interest

Common issues
the use and clinical trials of drugs and vaccines/testing of medical devices, abortion, death right, human cloning, stem cells, genetic engineering, in vitro fertilization (IVF)

Dicussion
HENRIETTA LACKS

Person have benefited

Intentions of doctor/scientist

Scientist ethical

Unethical but there will be different perspectives in this case
Initially, they only took cancer cells for research, but after she died, they learned that they are immortal.
The doctor who discovered Hela cells did not take credit for his work and did not apply for a license of invention.

Scientific research

Next patient's generation and medicine's scientist. HeLa is used to test a wide variety of diseases and methods. From chemotherapy to plastic surgery, and from vaccines to Viagra. The biggest application of HeLa is in the production of vaccines to treat Polio disease.