Journal #2

Summary:

With the development of scientific and technological progress, there are so many new sciences appeared. One is called biomedical engineering which combines expertise in engineering with expertise in medicine and human biology, and this new science aim to contribute to good patient care and health.

There are so many ethical issues about whether human should focus on building their superior body by using biomedical engineering. Do people should be responsible for all of their actions if they have their prosthetics in their brain and should biomedical engineers try to develop brains that are superior to the normal human brain?

It is really amazing that you can do the brain transplant using this biomedical engineering. Of the last century, there is an American doctor, named Robert J. White, who was succeed in transplant a dog’s brain into another dog’s body, although this brain transplanted dog only lives 8 days after the surgery. This successful experiment had an enormous implication at that time because this technology give people hope, who are completely paralyzed, to make them live a life like normal people. By transplant the completely paralyzed people’s brain into another healthy human body, they can heal their disability of their body, but only thing to consider, “you are going to have a new body and a new brain, so who you are?’ which is also put forward by Doctor White. This technology has not been used in human due to the social ethics.

Personally speaking, I am really can’t accept this technology to develop a superior brain by using biomedical engineering, for the reason is that I think it’s the same situation with the brain transplant; scientists have proved that when people do the heart transplant, they may have a totally different actions after the surgery, let alone to develop the superior brains. Maybe I can be a smart person after I get a superior brain, but I never want to be the person who is not myself.