key terms
- Created by: bwillows1
- Created on: 21-04-14 13:14
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- topic 1- matters of life
- morality
- A system of ethics about what is right or wrong
- Ethics
- the theory relating to morality
- absolute morality
- what is morally right or wrong, applies to all circumstances at all times
- Relative morality
- what is morally right or wrong in any situation depends upon its particular circumstances
- sanctity of life
- life is sacred because it is god given
- value of life
- the value of a person over and above physical value
- quality of life
- a measure of fulfilment
- Fertility treatment
- medical procedure to assist an infertile couple to have a child
- IVF (invitro fertilisaton)
- a scientific method of making a woman pregnant, which does not involve sex. conception occurs via sperm and egg being placed in a test tube.
- Test tube baby
- term used for baby created outside of a womans body
- Artificial insemination
- sperm medically inserted into the vagina to assist pregnancy
- surrogacy
- woman's egg fertilised artificially by another womans partner
- AIH
- when a woman is made pregnant by the sperm of her husband, but not through having sexual relations with him
- AID
- when a woman is made pregnant by another man other than her partner, but not through having sexual relations with him
- sexual intercourse
- sexual activity involving more than one person, for reasons of procreation or pleasure
- transplant surgery
- when someone else's organs are put into a patient
- blood transfusion
- when a patient is given extra blood as part of an operation
- human genetic engineering
- the modification of gene make up to change the features of a human
- embryology
- the study of human embryos
- embryo
- fertilized ovum at about 12-14 days when implanted into the walls of the womb
- designer babies
- babies with gender and characteristics that have been chosen by their parents (currently illegal)
- stem cell
- a cell mot often taken from a 4-5 day embryo, whose role in the body is yet to be determined
- savior siblings
- a sibling genetically compatible with a sick child is implanted and born to use stem cells to treat the sick child
- cloning
- the scientific method by which animals or plants can be created which have exactly the same genetic make-up as the original, because the DNA of the original is used.
- human- animal hybrid embryology
- an embryo made from human DNA and animal eggs for purposes of experimentation
- human experimentation
- testing products, usually medicines on paid human volunteers
- Quickening
- the first detectable movements of a fetus
- Viable
- the point at which a fetus could survive if it were to be born
- Ensoulment
- the belief that at one moment the fetus receives a soul
- conception
- the moment the sperm fertilizes the egg
- morality
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