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25 - Next-Generation Ethical Development of Medical Devices

Considering Harms, Benefits, Fairness, and Freedom

from Part IV - Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2019

By
Andrew O. Brightman ,
Jonathan Beever  and
Michael C. Hiles
Edited by
Ali E. Abbas
Ali E. Abbas
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
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Summary

Each year hundreds of new biomedical devices and therapies are developed to attempt to solve unmet medical needs.  However, many fail due to unforeseen challenges of complex ethical, regulatory, and societal issues.  We propose that a number of these issues can be effectively transformed into drivers of innovation for medical solutions if ethical analysis is considered early, iteratively, and comprehensively in the research and development process.

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Next-Generation Ethics
Engineering a Better Society
 , pp. 387 - 410
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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