Biomedical Engineering is the application of engineering principles and techniques to medicine, the ethics issues such as such as cellular, genetic and tissue engineering, biomaterials, prostheses and implants ,which it leads to ,should be paid attention to and solved.
I am going to answer the first question.
My view is that with limited using of biomedical technology, engineers can attempt to enhance the human body.
First, it is obvious that human enhancement would help a lot in medical science, especially when treat those who have cancer or some illness we cannot have therapy now. By using this method, it is possible for us to enhance those patient’s organ so that they can live much longer. Although this may just last a couple of months, it’s still important for patients, imagine if one patient want to see his/her son one more time, but before his/her son come to hospital, the patient has already died, what a woeful thing it is !
This is not to say, however, under no circumstances, should we use human enhancement whenever. Human enhancement could cause serious danger if some scientists use it in some illegal way. Just like the movie Spider-man and Superman ,although these characters are both righteous, how can we believe if this does happen in our real life, those super-human will keep justice all the time? So it is crucial for us to control this technology, and force it in a very limited use. Human enhancement can be a very dangerous technology if it is uncontrolled.
To sum up, human enhancement is indeed an advanced and useful technology if we can use it in a right and legal way, government must enact a law to control this technology in a limited use just in medical treat in hospital. Only by doing this, can we crate a win-win situation for both our human and our healthy society.
Another fitting example would be the villains to those same superheroes (the Joker, Lex Luther, etc.)--they often have some physical enhancement(s), and yet use it for evil. Thanks for sharing, Michael.
ReplyDeleteYes, living longer is exactly what patients want when they are facing death. You made a very good point at enhancing the human body. It is obviously dangerous, if criminals have acquired this technology so that they can be unstoppable.
ReplyDeleteI catch you idea that we would better apply human enhancement in a limited using which I comprehend as application appropriately. Definitely, science is a double-edged sword so that we should consider Biomedicine Engineering issues dialectically. Neither affirm sightless nor negate totally. The Biomedicine Engineering tests, which do not challenge the lowest limit of moral, ought to be supported. All in all we have got what we expect.
ReplyDeleteI believe everyone should keep the human's normal period. That means everyone should died. If scientists find a way can keep heart working forever, maybe it's not a wonderful world.
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