Questions of Critical Inquiry
Purpose: Is it morally correct to replace biological parts with technology?
Precision Questions:
1. How can doctors and scientists precisely measure the effectiveness of these medical solutions?
2. From what materials would this machine made out of? In the production of these machines, will there be any environmental issue that might go with?
3. In what ways can these machine affect our own economy and the world's economy?
Accuracy/Validity Questions:
1. With the rapid technological advances in biomedical engineering, should the human race feel at ease with the idea of being part machine?
2. Which qualities will distinguish if a patient is fit to receive the treatment?
3. How affordable will such treatment costs? Is there any kind of financial support that the government provide for those who can't afford it?
Consistency questions:
1. Is technology used in people's body consistently effective enough to be considered so frequently?
2. Does people's constant want for extending their lives using technology have a limit?
3. Does technologies frequent success suggest it should be trusted 100%?
Logic questions:
1. Is it logic to make human beings more robotic than human?
2. Is it logic to keep finding technological ways to increase human lifespans with the population over 7 billion?
3. Is it reasonable to believe that one day human beings will find themselves being more robotic than human?
Implication Questions:
1. With all the advances in biomedical engineering is it possible for a human to live forever?
2. Will some religions refuse to allow their members to use these new devices due to theological reasons?
3. What would happen to the medical industry? Would it boom because of the creation of a bunch of new devices? Or would it bust because people would be getting sick and hurt less?
Relevance Questions:
1. How many industries are actually affected by biomedical engineering?
2. How many patients have benefited because of a biomedically engineered device?
3. Have the number of patients using these devices increased or decreased, and if an increase has occurred by how much?
Point of View:
1. Why is it, in this day of technology, teens and young adults view older adults as a strange type of person if they have technology as a limb?
2. How are people viewed differently when they have a limb or body part that has been biomedically engineered?
3. Are people viewed as less of an athlete or more of an athlete with prosthetic limbs? Why or why not?
Assumption:
1. Why do we assume that most patients benefit from biomedically engineered devices?
2. How close, percentage wise, are the movements of a patient with a biomedically engineered limb, relative to the movements that they had before?
3. What can be assumed about the prices of the products based on the demand for these devices?
Precision Questions:
1. How can doctors and scientists precisely measure the effectiveness of these medical solutions?
2. From what materials would this machine made out of? In the production of these machines, will there be any environmental issue that might go with?
3. In what ways can these machine affect our own economy and the world's economy?
Accuracy/Validity Questions:
1. With the rapid technological advances in biomedical engineering, should the human race feel at ease with the idea of being part machine?
2. Which qualities will distinguish if a patient is fit to receive the treatment?
3. How affordable will such treatment costs? Is there any kind of financial support that the government provide for those who can't afford it?
Consistency questions:
1. Is technology used in people's body consistently effective enough to be considered so frequently?
2. Does people's constant want for extending their lives using technology have a limit?
3. Does technologies frequent success suggest it should be trusted 100%?
Logic questions:
1. Is it logic to make human beings more robotic than human?
2. Is it logic to keep finding technological ways to increase human lifespans with the population over 7 billion?
3. Is it reasonable to believe that one day human beings will find themselves being more robotic than human?
Implication Questions:
1. With all the advances in biomedical engineering is it possible for a human to live forever?
2. Will some religions refuse to allow their members to use these new devices due to theological reasons?
3. What would happen to the medical industry? Would it boom because of the creation of a bunch of new devices? Or would it bust because people would be getting sick and hurt less?
Relevance Questions:
1. How many industries are actually affected by biomedical engineering?
2. How many patients have benefited because of a biomedically engineered device?
3. Have the number of patients using these devices increased or decreased, and if an increase has occurred by how much?
Point of View:
1. Why is it, in this day of technology, teens and young adults view older adults as a strange type of person if they have technology as a limb?
2. How are people viewed differently when they have a limb or body part that has been biomedically engineered?
3. Are people viewed as less of an athlete or more of an athlete with prosthetic limbs? Why or why not?
Assumption:
1. Why do we assume that most patients benefit from biomedically engineered devices?
2. How close, percentage wise, are the movements of a patient with a biomedically engineered limb, relative to the movements that they had before?
3. What can be assumed about the prices of the products based on the demand for these devices?