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Telehealth in Sub-Saharan Africa
The sudden influx of modern communications in Sub-Saharan Africa has opened up exciting opportunities for humanitarian engineering – a field that many engineers associate with installation of water and sanitation facilities in rural areas – to adapt mobile communications technologies to address the urgent health needs of this impoverished region.
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Volume 19 Number 3
Fall 2000
Fall 2000 Issue

Special Feature

    8 Ethics, Professionalism, and the Pleasures of Engineering: T&S Interview with Samuel Florman
Respected engineer-author Samuel Florman says he believes intelligent people are appropriately ambivalent about technology, recognizing it as a potential force for good or evil. Florman also advocates the study of humanities for engineering students, and the need for better PR for the engineering profession.
    Interview by Terri Bookman

Features

    19 The Paradox of "Engineering Science"*
    The debate over the definition of engineering was part of the Cold War reconfiguration of engineering education in the United States.
    Ronald R. Kline

    26 Technology, Policy, Ethics, and Public Health: A Select Bibliography
    A comprehensive sampling of available works related to technological implications for public health ethics and policy.
    Herman T. Tavani

    * Refereed Article

Departments

    3 Letters

    5 Conference Report - Bringing Sustainable Technologies Closer to Reality

    7 Call for Papers - ISTAS 2001

    18 Call for Papers - Special Issue of T&S Magazine on Engineering Ethics

    35 Reviews - Social, Ethical, and Policy Implications of Engineering: Selected Readings; Green
    Electronics/Green Bottom Line: Environmentally Responsible Engineering

Volume 19 Number 3 Fall 2000 Fall 2000 Issue

Volume 19 Number 3
Fall 2000
Fall 2000 Issue