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The last five decades have seen significant development in medical and biomedical technology and applications. The increase in research and development in fields such as biomechanics, biomaterials, cloning, tissue engineering, and medicine have spawned a whole new branch of philosophy aptly named bioethics. Bioethics, the study of the ethical and moral implications of biological research and biomedical advances, emerged in the early 1970s as its own discipline. As medical technology is improved and new developments made the influence of bioethics will place an ever increasing role on the research of scientists and engineers. It is extremely important that biomedical engineers on the frontline of cutting edge research be aware of the ethical dilemmas involved in their experimentation.
This paper has three objectives. The first is to briefly outline the development of bioethics as a field since the end of World War II. The second is a focus on the recent controversy seen with......

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