Biomaterial Database

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UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D004992	Ethics, Medical	The principles of professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of the physician, relations with patients and fellow practitioners, as well as actions of the physician in patient care and interpersonal relations with patient families.	Medical Ethics
D026684	Personal Autonomy	Self-directing freedom and especially moral independence. An ethical principle holds that the autonomy of persons ought to be respected. (Bioethics Thesaurus)	Autonomy, Personal,Free Will,Self Determination
D026688	Bioethical Issues	Clusters of topics that fall within the domain of BIOETHICS, the field of study concerned with value questions that arise in biomedicine and health care delivery.	Bioethical Issue,Issue, Bioethical,Issues, Bioethical
D028723	Personhood	The state or condition of being a human individual accorded moral and/or legal rights. Criteria to be used to determine this status are subject to debate, and range from the requirement of simply being a human organism to such requirements as that the individual be self-aware and capable of rational thought and moral agency.
D040841	Resource Allocation	Societal or individual decisions about the equitable distribution of available resources.	Allocation of Resources,Allocative Efficiency,Allocation, Resource,Efficiency, Allocative,Resources Allocation