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Kinn's Chapter 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| advocate | One who pleads the cause of another; one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal. |
| allocating | Apportioning for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things. |
| annotations | Notes added by way of comment or explanation |
| beneficence | The act of doing or producing good, especially performing acts of charity or kindness. |
| clinical trials | Research studies that test how well new medical treatments or other interventions work in the subjects, usually human being. |
| disparities | Marked differences or distinctions. |
| disposition | The tendency of something or someone to act in a certain manner under given circumstances |
| duty | Obligatory tasks, conduct, service, or functions that arise from one's position, as in life or in a group. |
| euthanasia | The act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy. |
| fidelity | Faithfulness to something to which one is bound by pledge or duty. |
| gametes | Mature male or female germ cells, usually possessing a haploid chromosome set and capable of initiating formation of a new diploid individual; a sex cell, whether sperm or ovum. |
| genome | The genetic material of an organism. |
| idealism | The practice of forming ideas or living under the influence of ideas. |
| impaired | Being in a less-than-perfect or less-than-whole condition; includes having handicaps or functional defects and being under the influence of drugs, alcohol, and/or controlled substances. |
| infertile | Not fertile or productive; not capable of reproduction. |
| introspection | An inward, reflective examination of one's own thoughts and feelings, |
| nonmaleficence | Refraining from the act or harming or committing evil. |
| opinions | Formal expressions of judgment or advice by an expert; formal expressions of the legal reasons and principles on which a legal decision is based. |
| philosopher | A person who seeks wisdom or enlightenmebnt; an expounder of a theory in a certain area of experience. |
| postmortem | Done, collected, or occurring after death. |
| procurement | To get possession of, to obtain by particular care and effort. |
| public domain | The realm embracing property rights that belong to the community at large, are unprotected by copyright or patent, and are subject to use or appropriation by anyone. |
| ramifications | Consequences produced by a cause or following from a set of conditions. |
| reparations | Amends, acts of atonement, or satisfaction given as a result of a wrong or injury. |
| sociologic | Oriented or directed toward social needs and problems |
| surrogate | A substitute; to put in place of another |
| unique identifiers | Codes used instead of names to protect the confidentiality of the patient in a method of anonymous HIV testing. |
| veracity | A devotion to or conformity with the truth. |
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