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cloning |
a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived |
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Dolly |
- the sheep who was the first cloned mammal created 1996 & died 2003 |
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euthanasia |
the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die by withholding extreme medical care from a person or animal suffering from an incurable, esp. a painful, disease or condition |
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Jack Kevorkian |
a pathologist who advocated terminal patient's "right to die" and claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to die |
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informed consent |
patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participate in a clinical study after being properly advised of the medical facts and the risks involved |
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living will |
legal document instructing physicians, relatives, or others to stop the use of extraordinary measures, as life-support equipment, to prolong one's life in the event of a terminal illness |
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durable power of health care |
legal document allows you to designate someone to make health care decisions for you when you are unable |
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coma |
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to wake a person |
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Terry Schiavo |
woman who suffered brain damage and had a feeding tube removed by her husband based on her wishes |
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eugenics |
- improving the qualities of the human species or a human population by either discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics) |
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Nuremburg Code 1947 |
set of principles for human experimentation set as a result of the Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War |
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Declaration of Helsinki |
a set of ethical principles for the medical community regarding human experimentation |
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artifical insemination |
the injection of semen into the vagina or uterus by means of a syringe or the like rather than by coitus |
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in vitro fertilization |
a specialized technique by which an ovum, esp. a human one, is fertilized by sperm outside the body, with the resulting embryo later implanted in the uterus for gestation |
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preimplantation genetic diagnosis |
is a technique used to identify genetic defects in embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) before transferring them into the uterus |
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surrogate mother |
a woman who helps a couple to have a child by carrying to term an embryo conceived by the couple and transferred to her uterus, or by being inseminated with the man's sperm and either donating the embryo for transfer to the woman's uterus or carrying it to term |
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sterilization |
the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce) |
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amniocentesis |
procedure in which a small sample of amniotic fluid is drawn out of the uterus through a needle inserted in the abdomen. The fluid is then analyzed to detect genetic abnormalities in the fetus or to determine the sex of the fetus. |
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triple screen |
a blood test for pregnant women for alpha-fetoprotein, human chorionic gonadotropin, and estriol in order to assess the risk of fetal abnormality (as Down syndrome, anencephaly, and spina bifida |
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patriotism |
devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty |
