Bioethics Flashcards
Respecting individuals’ right to make decisions about their own healthcare and ensuring their informed consent.
Autonomy
Recognizes a person’s capacity for self-governance and the right to act in accordance with their own values and goals
Autonomy
Promoting the well-being and best interests of individuals, seeking to maximize benefits and minimize harm.
Beneficence
It involves acting in a manner that benefits others and contributes to their welfare
Beneficence
The principle of do no harm
Non-maleficence
It requires healthcare professionals and researchers to avoid causing harm to individuals and to prevent foreseeable risks or harm
Non-maleficence
Fairness in the distribution of healthcare resources, access to medical services, and the allocation of benefits and burders.
Justice
It encompasses the principle of treating individuals fairly and equitably, regardless of their social, economic, or demographic characteristics
Justice
A medical test used to determine the brainwaves of the human being
Electroencephalogram
Killing of a less than three days old child
Infanticide
Process that occurs over a period of 24 hrs after the actual combination of the sperm and egg
Fertilization
Means of sex selection through which the X and Y chromosomes are dissected
Sperm Sorting
Screen the anatomical, physiological or genetical conditions of the embryo
Embryo screening
Used prenatal diagnosis which is done by the use of offspring
Post-implantation method
Involves fertilizing an egg with sperm outside the body and transferring the resulting embryo to the uterus
In vitro fertilization
An arrangement where a woman carries and gives birth to a child on behalf of another person or couple
Surrogacy
Providing relief from pain and improving the quality of life for individuals facing life-limiting illnesses.
Palliative care
Involves a physician providing the means for a patient to end their own life
Physician-assisted suicide
Involves the intentional ending of a patient’s life by a physician
Euthanasia
Legal documents that allow individuals to express their preferences for medical treatment in the event they become unable to make decision for themselves
Advance directives
Moving of a whole or partial growth from one body to another
Organ transplant
transplant done among the living
Inter vivo
Donations given after death of the donor
Postmortem
Cell that has the viability to divide or self replicate for indefinite periods
Stem cell
It is the low-temperature freezing and storage of human remains
Cryonics
