Cochlear implant

Essay #2: Disability or Enhancement? In this essay, I will argue that Gauvin’s parents were not morally justified in their decision to permanently make their son born and remain deaf because by doing so the parents are treating the child as a lesser equal and are inflicting psychological harm. The role of parents is to ensure the wellbeing, safety, and support of their child in hopes that they can become stable, independent, and functional individuals in the near future. However, choosing a…

Mutterings Over the Crib of a Deaf Child Published in 1957, James Wright’s poem “Mutterings Over the Crib of a Deaf Child” describes the array of emotions that the parents of a deaf child have as they ponder what kind of life and possible future that the child will have. In this essay I intend to discuss the fear, worry, hope, optimism and concern that the parents are feeling about their baby’s future. The title is slightly ironic in the sense that it doesn’t matter how loud or soft that the…

The main question that is discussed in the article, “Effectiveness of Counseling-Based Adult Group Aural Rehabilitation Programs: A Systematic Review of the Evidence,” is whether group aural rehabilitation (AR) programs that are counseling based are effective or not. The article reviewed the evidence from these group AR programs from relevant articles that had to match a specific list of criteria. I believe that counseling based group AR programs are effective for not only those who are hearing…

Currently, 3D printing is being used to make a variety of medical implants. According to Professor David Dean, at Ohio State University, the problems that plagued older technology are a thing of the past. He states that 3D printing has given major hospitals the ability to use specially-printed implants that are customized to each patient. These new implants are typically printed and delivered to hospitals on the same day. 3D printed implants include the following: A skull that was implanted…

Medical devices function to save and improve the lives of humans across the globe. Sadly, some devices turn out to be defective, leading to new health issues and possibly even death. This occurs when a faulty design prohibits the device from working as intended or when one or more parts of the product are contaminated during manufacturing. As a result of the defect, the patient may find they need to undergo further treatment, often in the form of surgery, and some die as a result of the product…

Deep Brain Stimulation Implantation Deep brain stimulation implantation is a procedure to insert a device that will send an electrical current to an area of the brain that is causing problems. This may be done to treat various medical conditions, such as: • Parkinson disease. • Essential tremor. • Epilepsy. • Inherited disorders of muscle movement (dystonias). • Cluster headaches. • Multiple sclerosis. • Obsessive-compulsive disorder. • Depression. The DBS device generates…

As technology continues to advance and possibilities are explored, these issues also continue to develop and become increasingly widespread. Consider the use of prosthetic limbs to restore limbs to those who lost them or have a condition preventing the development of the limb: individuals with prosthetic legs, for example, without denying the pain of having lost their limbs, need not be concerned with prosthetic fatigue. While the prosthesis may be mapped to their nerves to allow movement, it…

ways the inventors did not originally imagine. Today there tens of thousands of peoples walking around with implants that connect electronic directly to their nervous systems Theses peoples have accepted they are better off becoming a hybrid, part human, part machine, than staying purely human. Before long they would become known as cyborgs. For year’s people have used structural implants, ranging from plates and screws to support broken bones, to wholesale replacement of the hip joints.…

As the world continues to develop, so does the medical field. New medical problems arise almost every day. In order to keep up with all these changes, there is a profession that focuses solely on improving health care called biomedical engineering. For many people it is hard to completely understand the impact that biomedical engineering has had on the lives of many people, but knowing that it has produced a tremendous amount of devices and concepts since its beginnings can help someone start to…

though 3D printing was invented in the 1980s, new software and technology had emerged from this mechanism and is allowing breakthroughs in many areas in the health field industry. "Medical devices produced by 3D printing include orthopedic and cranial implants, surgical instruments, dental…