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Ch. 6 Kinns MA
Medicine and Ethics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Advocate | One who pleads the cause of another; one who defends or maintains a cause of proposal. |
| Allocating | Apportioning for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things |
| Annotations | notes added by way of comment or explantion |
| Beneficence | The act of doing or producing good, especially preforming acts of kindness or charity. |
| Clinical trials | research studies that test how well new medical treatments or other interventions work in the subjects, usually human beings. |
| Disparities | marked differences or distinctions |
| Disposition | The tendency of something or someone to act a certain way under given circumstances. |
| Duty | obligatory tasks, conduct service, or functions, that arise from ones 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 | Faithfullness to something to which one is bound by pledge or duty. |
| Gamete | Mature male or female germ calls, usually possession of haploid chromosomes set and capable of initiating formation of a a new diploid individual. a sex whether a 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 conditions, it 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 reproducing. |
| Introspection | An inward, reflective examination of ones thoughts and feelings |
| Justice | With regard to medical ethics, the fair distribution of benefits and burdens among individuals or gorps in society with legitimate claims on those benefits. |
| Nonmaleficence | Refraining from the act of harming or committing evil. |
| Opinions | Formal expressions of judgement or advice by an expert; formed expressions of the legal reasons and principles on which a legal decision is based. |
| Philosopher | A person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment; an expounder of theory in a certain area of expertise. |
| Post mortem | Done, collected. 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 | Consequence produced by a cause or following from a set of conditions |
| Reparations | Amends, act 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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