The Recognition of Biomedical Engineering Within the International Council for Science

Abstract

Forty years separate the emergence of Biomedical Engineering in a meeting in Paris at UNESCO in 1959 from its recognition together with Medical Physics in 1999 by the International Council for Science. The main problems of definition and of identity of Biomedical Engineering as a scientific discipline are discussed and the different steps which have favored this recognition are A outlined.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 25, 2001
Accession Number
ADA410155

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