Biomaterial Database

Perimortal initiatives: issues in foregoing life-sustaining treatment, suicide, and assisted suicide. 1987

C D Gibson

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008020	Life Support Care	Care provided patients requiring extraordinary therapeutic measures in order to sustain and prolong life.	Extraordinary Treatment,Prolongation of Life,Care, Life Support,Extraordinary Treatments,Life Prolongation,Treatment, Extraordinary,Treatments, Extraordinary
D004989	Ethics	The philosophy or code pertaining to what is ideal in human character and conduct. Also, the field of study dealing with the principles of morality.	Egoism,Ethical Issues,Metaethics,Moral Policy,Natural Law,Situational Ethics,Ethical Issue,Ethics, Situational,Issue, Ethical,Issues, Ethical,Law, Natural,Laws, Natural,Moral Policies,Natural Laws,Policies, Moral,Policy, Moral
D005065	Euthanasia	The act or practice of killing or allowing death from natural causes, for reasons of mercy, i.e., in order to release a person from incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. (from Beauchamp and Walters, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 5th ed)	Mercy Killing,Killing, Mercy,Killings, Mercy,Mercy Killings
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001675	Bioethics	A branch of applied ethics that studies the value implications of practices and developments in life sciences, medicine, and health care.	Biomedical Ethics,Health Care Ethics,Ethics, Biomedical,Ethics, Health Care
D012945	Social Values	Abstract standards or empirical variables in social life which are believed to be important and/or desirable.	Value Orientation,Values, Social,Value Orientations
D013405	Suicide	The act of killing oneself.	Suicides
D018864	Cultural Diversity	Coexistence of numerous distinct ethnic, racial, religious, or cultural groups within one social unit, organization, or population. (From American Heritage Dictionary, 2d college ed., 1982, p955)	Multiculturalism,Pluralism,Cultural Pluralism,Cultural Diversities,Diversities, Cultural,Diversity, Cultural,Multiculturalisms,Pluralism, Cultural,Pluralisms
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
D026712	Value of Life	The intrinsic moral worth ascribed to a living being. (Bioethics Thesaurus)	Economic Value of Life,Life Valuation, Economic,Economic Life Valuation,Economic Value, Life,Economic Values, Life,Life Economic Value,Life Economic Values,Respect for Life,Right to Life,Sanctity of Life,Valuation, Economic Life,Economic Life Valuations,Life Sanctities,Life Sanctity,Life Valuations, Economic,Life, Respect for,Life, Right to,Valuations, Economic Life