Ritter AB, Reisman S, Michniak BB: Biomedical Engineering Principles

Review of "Biomedical Engineering Principles", by A.B. Ritter, S. Reisman and B.B. Michniak

Being a young discipline, Biomedical Engineering (BME) offers too few good textbooks for undergraduates. Moreover, in some of the available undergraduate BME textbooks, the levels of mathematics and engineering science were compromised in favor of a more qualitative approach. I was therefore happy to discover that in the recent title by Ritter et al., there is not only in-breadth overview on cu...

Principles of Biomedical Ethics

In this presentation, I will discuss the principles of biomedical and Islamic medical ethics and an interfaith perspective on end-of-life issues. I will also discuss three cases to exemplify some of the conflicts in ethical decision-making.

Principles of Applied Biomedical Instrumentation

cillin in the treatment of acute pelvic inflammatory disease seems unwarranted in view of the toxic manifestations of this drug. It would be far better to reserve its use for refractory infections. Despite five chapters devoted to habitual abortion no coverage is given to the subject of infection as an etiologic agent. Listeria and more recently mycoplasma have been incriminated in abortion. Th...

Polymers for Biomedical Engineering

Advances in biomedical engineering.

The most visible contributions of biomedical engineering to clinical practice involve instrumentation for diagnosis, therapy, and rehabilitation. Cell and tissue engineering also have emerged as clinical realities. In the next 25 years, advances in electronics, optics, materials, and miniaturization will accelerate development of more sophisticated devices for diagnosis and therapy, such as ima...