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ETHICAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behavior
Example:
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants
Classified under:
Also:
right (in conformance with justice or law or morality)
Antonym:
unethical (not conforming to approved standards of social or professional behavior)
Derivation:
ethics (motivation based on ideas of right and wrong)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Adhering to ethical and moral principles
Example:
followed the only honorable course of action
Synonyms:
ethical; honorable; honourable
Classified under:
Similar:
right (in conformance with justice or law or morality)
Derivation:
ethics (motivation based on ideas of right and wrong)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics
Example:
ethical theories
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
ethics (the philosophical study of moral values and rules)
Derivation:
ethics (the philosophical study of moral values and rules)
Context examples:
A professional association of dentists, committed to advancing the public's oral health, the ethical and scientific advancement of the field, and the professional advancement of its members.
(American Dental Association, NCI Thesaurus)
Reflects education and training, professional qualifications, surgical competence, and ethical conduct consistent with standards established by the College.
(Fellow of American College of Surgeons, NCI Thesaurus)
Particularly, the ethical principle or legal right that a physician or other health professional will hold secret all information relating to a patient, unless the patient gives consent permitting disclosure.
(Confidentiality, NCI Thesaurus)
The monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud.
(Judaism, NCI Thesaurus)
Goal: identify and characterize every major human gene that predisposes people to cancer; begin to apply these discoveries through clinical practice to help patients at risk; address the psychosocial, ethical, and legal issues associated with inherited cancer susceptibility (NCI Web)
(Extraordinary Opportunity: Genes and the Environment, NCI Thesaurus)
Also called ethical.
(Moral, NCI Dictionary)
An office within the National Institutes of Health that monitors scientific progress in basic and clinical research involving recombinant DNA and human gene transfer, advises federal departments and agencies on ways to minimize the possibility that knowledge and technologies emanating from vitally important biological research will be misused to threaten public health or national security, provides policy advice to the Department of Health and Human Services on the broad array of complex medical, ethical, legal, and social issues raised by the development and use of genetic technologies and Xenotransplantation.
(Office of Biotechnology Activities, NCI Thesaurus)
A scientist or health care professional that has a financial agreement, as outlined in a binding statement of work, with the sponsor to bear full and ultimate responsibility for the scientific, administrative, ethical, legal, technical, and fiscal aspects of the study, and for day-to-day management of the scientific project, as well as for documenting and reporting its results.
(Contract Principal Investigator, NCI Thesaurus)
Is it ethical to harvest embryonic stem cells to treat diseases?
(Medical Ethics, NIH)
Institutional Review Boards check to see that the trial is well designed, legal, ethical, does not involve unneccesary risks, and includes safeguards for patients.
(Institutional Review Board, NCI Dictionary)
