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Topics to write about

Ethical issues in patenting human genome

Here are some articles:

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/223380?uid=3738664&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21102012536211

http://jme.bmj.com/content/21/2/69.short

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1162/152651603322874762

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9930.2004.00195.x/abstract;jsessionid=88AD12081318DB8A87BD8B401F0507A2.d02t03?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false

hi Lorena, actually its for a class presentation.. I'l be required to write about what is actually happening around us. Thank you :)

Those links are giving me light, thanks Ari .

http://brian-edgar.com/themes/science-and-faith/biotheology-theology-ethics-and-new-biotechnologies/

http://www.iscast.org/journal/articles/Day_A_2002-04_Biotechnology_and_Medical_Ethics.pdf

http://www.eolss.net/Sample-Chapters/C17/E6-58-11-00.pdf

http://www.biotecharticles.com/Issues-Article/Bioethics-Ethical-Issues-of-Biotechnology-468.html

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/articles/articles.cfm?fam=HEALTH

http://hsc.csu.edu.au/biology/options/biotechnology/3052/biotechnologyPart7.html

http://www.who.int/genomics/publications/en/ethical_issuesin_medgenetics%20report.pdf

http://www.ethicsandmedicine.com/

hello Taahirah. are you looking for philosophy consideration of your ethical presentation? how do you want to describe this critical subject?

It's more for GMO and medecine.

Taahirah, you can check the following article - Policy and ethical issues in applying medical biotechnology in developing countries. Med Sci Monit, 2003; 9(2): RA49-54. By Minakshi Bhardwaj. You can get an overview from the paper.

You must take up some actual real case studies for your presentations, may be of your own country or international. Your listeners should be able to relate with those illustrations and can indirectly grasp the concept of ethics in medical biotechnology. Also, involve religious, social and economical factors related to those examples. It would become a very worthy presentation.

Here is a topic with some links:

Ethics education at the engineering/medicine interface.

An old paper of mine on this topic is on ResearchGate:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/21764177_Ethics_education_at_the_engineeringmedicine_interface?ev=prf_pub

Here is the citation and the Abstract from it:

Ethics education at the engineering/medicine interface.

Journal of Investigative Surgery (impact factor: 1.09). 5(3):209-18.

ABSTRACT There is a functioning interface between engineering and medicine. There are also wide-spread indications in the scientific community that there is increased concern for ethical matters in science and that the time has arrived for more instruction in this area. One reason for this in bioengineering is the rapidly growing complexity of technology in both engineering and medical biology. The ensuing difficulty in communication cannot be remedied just with more technical information. Instead bioengineers need an improved understanding of medical education and practice, and medical ethics is fundamental to this. Ethical considerations are crucial to decision making and therefore to all areas of professional endeavor in bioengineering. As a framework for ethics education, bioengineers need to gain a better understanding both of medical education in general and of medical practice, particularly the case study method in education and the nature of decision making in medical practice. Key subject areas in medical ethics for bioengineers include rights and duties of physicians, determination of death, team ethics, patient privacy and informed consent, research ethics, and malpractice. An ethics curriculum for bioengineers should be taught using both informal but regular exposure to clinical activities and clinicians, and formal classroom work. In the medical ethics classroom setting, writing assignments are essential to provoke each student to the introspection and commitment needed to form a personal professional ethos.

Article Ethics Education at the Engineering/Medicine Interface

please go to

http://enciclopediadebioetica.com/index.php/todas-las-voces/204-biologia-sintetica

in the www.enciclopediadebioetica.com

and read about sintethic Biology, I'm the Editor of the articles in this new Enciclopedia. If you make a click on the Author's name, you can know more about him, he is an investigator at Valencia University/Spain. Ursula Ossa, Argentina