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| Preface | |
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| Done Is Good | |
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| Structure and Pedagogy | |
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| Notes and Commentary | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Bioethics Questions Posed in Text | |
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| Prologue: Bioethics - Discovery through Design | |
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| A Different Approach to Bioethics | |
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| Arguments for and Against Case Analysis | |
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| Driver's Education Analogy | |
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| Example Case: Priming the Pump | |
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| Case Analysis | |
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| Notes and Commentary | |
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| Bioethics: A Creative Approach | |
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| Thought Experiments | |
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| Teachable Moment: Trust | |
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| The Principle of Double Effect | |
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| Teachable Moment: The Engineer as Agent versus Judge | |
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| Amy the Engineer | |
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| Teachable Moment: Who Was Van Rensselaer Potter? | |
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| Credat Emptor | |
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| Teachable Moment: Capital Punishment, Abortion, and the Definition of Human Life | |
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| The Good Engineer | |
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| Feedback and Enhancement of Design | |
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| Teachable Moment: The Good Engineer | |
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| The Profession of Engineering | |
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| Engineering Bioethics and Morality | |
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| Discussion Box: Ethics and the Butterfly Effect | |
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| "Small" Error and Devastating Outcomes | |
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| Technology, Engineering, and Economics | |
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| Teachable Moment: The Dismal Scientist versus the Technological Optimist | |
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| Engineering Competence | |
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| Engineering: Both Integrated and specialized | |
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| Who Is a Professional? | |
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| What Is Technical? | |
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| Systematics: Incorporating Ethics into the Design Process | |
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| Notes and Commentary | |
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| Bioethics and the Engineer | |
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| Major Bioethical Areas | |
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| Cloning and Stem Cell Research | |
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| Teachable Moment: Nanog | |
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| Human Enhancement | |
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| Patenting Life | |
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| Teachable Moment: Patenting Germplasm | |
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| Neuroethics | |
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| Organ Transplantation | |
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| Responsible Conduct of Human Research | |
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| Animal Testing | |
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| Is the Research Worth It? | |
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| Systematic Reality Check | |
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| Genetically Modified Organisms | |
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| Transgenic Species | |
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| Food | |
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| Environmental Health: The Ethics of Scale and the Scale of Ethics | |
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| Temporal Aspects of Bioethical Decisions: Environmental Case Studies | |
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| Agent Orange | |
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| Japanese Metal Industries | |
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| Minamata Mercury Case | |
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| Cadmium and Itai Itai Disease | |
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| Scale Is More than Size | |
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| Love Canal | |
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| Times Beach | |
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| Teachable Moment: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts | |
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| Active Engineering | |
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| Ethical Theories: A Primer | |
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| Truth | |
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| Psychological Aspects of Ethics | |
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| Teachable Moment: The Physiome Project: The Macroethics of Engineering toward Health | |
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| Fairness | |
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| Value as a Bioethical and Engineering Concept | |
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| Technical Optimism versus Dismal Science | |
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| Notes and Commentary | |
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| An Engineered Future: Human Enhancement | |
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| Professional Zeitgeist: How Engineers Think | |
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| Improvement versus Enhancement | |
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| Engineering Intuition | |
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| Engineers versus Economists | |
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| Intuiting Value | |
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| Deductive and Inductive Reasoning: Precursors to Intuition | |
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| Creativity | |
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| Moral Coherence | |
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| Creativity and Bioethics | |
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| The Ethical Quandary of Enhancement | |
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| Scientific Dissent | |
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| Notes and Commentary | |
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| The Bioethical Engineer | |
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| Professional Trust | |
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| Codes of Ethics: Words to Live By | |
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| Discussion Box: The Code of Hammurabi | |
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| Limitations of Codes of Ethics | |
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| Risk Shifting: Organochlorine Pesticides | |
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| Right of Professional Conscience | |
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| Groupthink and the Right of Conscience | |
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| Animals and Engineers | |
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| Teachable Moment: Confined Animal Feeding Operations and the Moral Standing of Animals | |
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| Making Ethical Decisions in Engineering | |
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| Discussion Box: Four Persons Who Changed the Way We Think about Nature | |
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| John Muir | |
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| Rachel Carson | |
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| Christopher Stone | |
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| Gaylord Nelson | |
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| Notes and Commentary | |
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| Bioethical Research and Technological Development | |
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| Beyond Regulation | |
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| Integrity | |
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| Teachable Moment: The Therapeutic Misconception | |
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| The Experiment | |
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| The Hypothetico-Deductive Method | |
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| Research Conflict of Interest | |
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| Teachable Moment: Truth and Turtles | |
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| Professionalism | |
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| Technology: Friend and Foe | |
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| Teachable Moment: Medical Device Risk | |
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| Risk Homeostasis and the Theory of Offsetting Behavior | |
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| Artifacts | |
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| Automation and Mechanization of Medicine | |
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| Professional Consideration: Do Engineers Have Patients? | |
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| Technological Reliability | |
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| Low Tech Engineering | |
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| Information Technology | |
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| The Ethics of Nanotechnology | |
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| Notes and Commentary | |
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| Bioethical Success and Failure | |
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| Teachable Moment: Engineering Measurement | |
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| Measurements of Success and Failure | |
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| Technological Success and Failure | |
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| Risk as a Bioethical Concept | |
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| Safety, Risk, and Reliability in Design | |
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| Probability: The Mathematics of Risk and Reliability | |
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| Discussion Box: Choose Your Risk | |
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| Reliability: An Ethics Metric | |
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| Reducing Risks | |
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| Risk as an Ethical Concept | |
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| Risk-Based Ethics: The Syllogism Revisited | |
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| Causation | |
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| Biographical Box: Sir Bradford Hill | |
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| Notes and Commentary | |
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| Analyzing Bioethical Success and Failure | |
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| Medical Device Failure: Human Factors Engineering | |
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| Teachable Moment: How to Analyse a Medical Device | |
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| Utility as a Measure of Success | |
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| Mistakes and Miscalculations | |
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| Extraordinary Natural Circumstances | |
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| Critical Path | |
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| Negligence | |
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| Lack of Imagination | |
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| Bioterrorism: The Engineer's Response | |
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| Dual Use and Primacy of Science | |
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| Social Response of Engineering to Terrorism | |
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| Success Paradigms | |
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| Characterizing Success and Failure | |
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| Accountability | |
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| Value | |
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| Case Analysis | |
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| Notes and Commentary | |
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| Justice and Fairness as Biomedical and Biosystem Engineering Concepts | |
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| Fairness and Distributive Justice | |
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| Discussion Box: Harm and the Hippocratic Oath | |
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| Teachable Moment: Disposal of a Slightly Hazardous Waste | |
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| Solution and Discussion | |
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| Though Experiment: Who Is More Ethical? | |
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| Professional Virtue and Empathy | |
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| Teachable Moment: Albert Schweitzer and the Reverence for Life | |
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| Reason | |
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| Teachable Moment: Abortion, Fairness, and Justice | |
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| Utility | |
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| Teachable Moment: Utility and Futility | |
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| Precaution as a Bioethical Concept | |
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| Discussion Box: The Tragedy of the Commons | |
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| Notes and Commentary | |
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| Sustainable Bioethics | |
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| Green Is Good | |
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| Sustainability | |
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| Teachable Moment: Rational Ethics and Thermodynamics | |
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| Life Cycles and Concurrent Engineering | |
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| Case Study Box: SIDS, A Concurrent Engineering Failure | |
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| Discussion Box: The Coffee Cup Debate | |
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| The Bioethics of Combustion | |
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| Systematic Bioethics | |
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| Seveso Plant Disaster | |
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| Poverty and Pollution | |
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| Interdependence | |
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| Notes and Commentary | |
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| Engineering Wisdom | |
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| Ethics and Chaos | |
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| Macroethics and Microethics | |
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| Future Directions | |
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| The Humble Engineer | |
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| Notes and Commentary | |
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| Epilogue: Practical Bioethics | |
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| Shutting Down the Pump | |
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| Objectivity and Finding Truth | |
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| Moral Courage | |
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| Bioethics Resources for the Engineer | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Ethics of Emerging Technologies | |
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| Ethical Analysis, Reasoning, and Decision Making | |
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| Macroethics and Societal Risk | |
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| Teaching Engineering Macroethics | |
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| Teaching Engineering Microethics | |
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| Useful Websites | |
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| Notes and Commentary | |
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| Glossary of Terms Likely to Be Encountered in Bioethical Decision Making | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |