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Engineering Ethics
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Engineering Ethics

by Gail Baura
April 2006
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 20m
English
Academic Press
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Chapter 13
2003: Guidant Ancure
Endograft System
153
THE REPORTED STORY
The New York Times Abstract:
Division of Guidant Corp, one of country’s largest makers of medical devices,
pleads guilty to 10 felonies, admitting it lied to government and hid thousands of
serious health problems, including 12 deaths, caused by one of its products; case
against division, Endovascular Technologies, results in $92.4 million in criminal
and civil penalties, largest ever imposed against maker of medical devices for fail-
ing to report problems to government; company developed stent-grafts that could
be used to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms without major surgery; problem ...
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