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2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Etim

<p>The contemporary world is becoming more and more complex in the intermingling of many diverse factors. A number of these factors emerged from the perspective of social, economic, political, religious, cultural, scientific, and technological transformations around the world. There is need for a better understanding of bioethics in the contemporary world and the significance of the interdisciplinary methodology in dealing with issues in bioethics, in the light of contemporary realities. At its emergence as a new discipline, bioethics was faced with a diversity of scientific, epistemological, metaphysical, anthropological and meta-ethical challenges, its original outlook was along the lines of principles, as clearly expressed in the definition given to bioethics in the first edition of the authoritative Encyclopedia of Bioethics. The second edition of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics offered to establish a corrective to the preponderance of the principles’ model and approach, indicating the significance of bioethics as: “…the systematic study of the moral dimensions – including moral vision, decisions, conduct, and policies – of the life sciences and health care, employing a variety of methodologies in an interdisciplinary setting.” This opens up the horizon enabling bioethics to collaborate effectively with the wisdom, knowledge and expertise that flowed from other disciplines, such as the formal sciences, the natural sciences, the medical sciences, health care, engineering, social sciences, philosophy, theology, law, environmental sciences, information, communications and technology. The list is not exhaustive, but the aim is, to empower creative collaboration. These indicate that creative advancement and innovative insight could be found at the intercessions of disciplines. Interdisciplinary methodology broadens the horizons and favours the cross-pollination of ideas that leads to creativity and development. In the face of the multiplicity of specializations, the interdisciplinary methodology is not without its challenges, but even in the face of these challenges there are opportunities, there is no gainsaying the fact that the interdisciplinary methodology has yielded positive results in the field of bioethics, it is also hoped that this could serve a paradigmatic purpose for innovation in philosophy and the humanities in the contemporary context. These also offer the opportunity for critical context analysis and collaboration. The age of closed monadism is over and permanently, combined expertise in an interdisciplinary setting opens up the opportunity for collaboration, greater creativity and innovative development. </p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0880/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>


Author(s):  
M. Sri Vally Radha ◽  
S. Pavan Kumar ◽  
P Appalanaidu ◽  
C. Sri Ramu

A lot of period, due to negligence of hospital staff, or insensitivity of relatives it may happen that medication is not observed correctly, and it may go ahead to cause heart attack or other life-threatening situations. Thus, this research study presents proposed systems which include arrangement of sensor tools and Internet of Things (IoT). Using this structure one can manage electrical energy equipment’s and monitor level of the medicine from a distant place and keep an eye on entire development. In this structure using IoT, one can normalize electrical appliances and constantly supervised patients from remote location. The internet of things technology is a innovative change maker for the health care engineering. It is changing healthcare field by dropping functioning costs and serving caretakers centre of attention on treating patients in a better mode. This method consists of a number of sensors. Controlling and data processing is done through the ESP8266, all the sensors are connected to Arduino Uno. Through this system, we can measure Temperature, heartbeat, and BP. Through sensors, it is possible to measure all these values. These values are then used for detecting any situation. In case of a critical situation, an alert can be given as a telegram message it is possible to monitor the person’s health from any location in the world through the mosquito server cloud. The project uses a MQTT protocol for monitoring patients. Condition through the mobile Application. The data from sensors is uploaded to the cloud server, periodically without any interruption if the internet is available. Through this system one can efficiently monitor patient’s condition.


2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-138
Author(s):  
Matthew F. Baretich

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