Biomedical Enhancement - Research News and Information

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Implant technology and usability.

30 Jul 2008 Implanted electrical stimulation technology has changed greatly in the roughly five decades of its existence. Many factors determine the viability of the technology and whether the systems and products developed ultimately go on to help the target ... Read more...

Extraocular surgery for implantation of an active subretinal visual prosthesis with external connections: feasibility and outcome in seven patients.

26 Jul 2008 BACKGROUND: Due to low energy levels in microphotodiode-based subretinal visual prostheses, an external power supply is mandatory. We report on the surgical feasibility and the functional outcome of the extraocular part of an approach to connect a ... Read more...

One danger of biomedical enhancements.

29 Jun 2008 In the near future, our society may develop a vast array of medical enhancements. There is a large debate about enhancements, and that debate has identified many possible harms. This paper describes a harm that has so far been overlooked. Because ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Biomedical Enhancement'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Frontiers in science. Will 'upgrades' enhance our bodies? 30 Jul 2008
• Implant technology and usability. 30 Jul 2008
• Extraocular surgery for implantation of an active subretinal visual prosthesis with external connections: feasibility and outcome in seven patients. 26 Jul 2008
• One danger of biomedical enhancements. 29 Jun 2008
• Humanity 2.0? Enhancement, evolution and the possible futures of humanity. 29 Jun 2008
• Gerontechnology. 29 Jun 2008
• Ethical expertise revisited. 8 Jun 2008
• Defining 'natural'. 8 Apr 2008
• Poll results: look who's doping. 8 Apr 2008
• The regulation of biotechnologies: four recommendations. 28 Feb 2008
• Enhancement and the ethics of development. 28 Feb 2008
• Italian neuroscientists are ready to start the debate. 5 Feb 2008
• On the argument that enhancement is "cheating". 30 Jan 2008
• Human enhancement and factor X. 30 Jan 2008
• Performance-enhancing technologies and moral responsibility in the military. 30 Jan 2008
• Assessing the importance of maintaining soldiers' moral responsibility--possible trade-offs. 30 Jan 2008
• Regulating biomedical enhancements in the military. 30 Jan 2008
• Drugs can be used to treat more than disease. 29 Jan 2008
• The action of enhancers can lead to addiction. 29 Jan 2008
• Rationality is a better basis for ethics than repugnance. 29 Jan 2008

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Technical information about 'Biomedical Enhancement'

Definition: The use of technology-based interventions to improve functional capacities rather than to treat disease.

Descriptor UI: D024803

Alternative terms: Biomedical Enhancement; Biomedical Enhancements; Enhancements, Biomedical; Enhancement, Biomedical; Enhancement Technologies; Enhancement Technology; Technologies, Enhancement; Technology, Enhancement;

Allowable Qualifiers: economics; ethics; history; methods; statistics & numerical data; standards;

Tree Number: E05.104; J01.897.115.250;

History Note: 2002