Emerging Technologies
Biomedical Engineering Ethics
The following bibliographies emerged from a project on the ethics of the research, development, and use of visual prosthesis technologies.
Select Bibliographies for topics on Ethics in Biomedical Engineering
Communicating Science to Public
Informed Consent and Disclosure of Information to Research Subjects
Single-subject Research Design
Other Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering
Ethics of Electrode Implantation for Neural Visual Prosthesis
Technical Background on the Implantation of Electrodes for a Visual Prosthesis
Other projects related to the development of a visual prosthesis
Links to further Biomedical Engineering articles & resources
Biomedical Engineering Society(BMES) publications, including the Annals of Biomedical Engineering
Science and Engineering Ethics journal (links to tables of contents and article abstracts)
Biomedical Engineering Network
Kennedy Institute of Ethics' National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature, indexes journal articles and resources in bioethics
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science, based at Case Western Reserve University
Professional Organizations, Conferences, & Symposia
Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
Symposia at the Bioengineering Consortium of the National Institutes of Health
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, as well as many other sections.
IEEE conferences can be searched (by division, sponsor, year, etc.)
International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE)
American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Nanotechnology and Ethics
Bibliography and online resources emerging from an ongoing project on the ethics of nanotechnology research and development.
