Title: Unit 15 Key Terms
Course: SAT 170 Introductory Biotechnology > Section: SAT 170 Introductory Biotechnology

Unit 15 Key Terms

Terms

Term | Definitions
Bioethics | the ethics that applies to biological research, including biotechnological research
Carcinogenic | an agent that causes cancer
Deontological approach | an ethical approach which focuses on decision making based on compliance with a rule or set of rules
Double-blind trial | a clinical trial in which neither the patient nor the individual administering the patient are informed of whether they have been placed in an experimental or control group
Ethics | a set of principles, often referred to as moral values, which govern and guide our actions, especially our actions towards other individuals
Informed consent | the permission that a patient gives in order to be administered a treatment after being informed of all of the possible beneficial and adverse outcomes of the treatment
Moratorium | a suspension in activity such as that which occurs when all research in a particular field is halted until such research can be properly evaluated
Objectivism | an ethical approach which focuses on the fact that there are certain absolutes which are independent of an individual’s hopes, fears or feelings and that these rules cannot be broken
Placebo | a safe but non-effective treatment that is administered in the same manner as the treatment to provide a control group for a clinical trial
Risk assessments | an evaluation of how probable an event or outcome is to occur as well as how strong of an effect such an event or outcome may have
Situational ethics | an ethical approach which focuses on making decisions if the ends justify the means which involves weighing all of the possible answers to determine which would be able to provide the greatest pos ...
Statistical probability | an estimate of how probable an event or outcome is to occur
Teratrogenic | an agent that causes birth defects
Utilitarian approach | an ethical approach which focuses on the consequences or outcomes of an action with the driving force behind decisions being trying to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number