Category: M

A contraceptive that may be used after unprotected coitus has taken place.  

Customs or conventions enforced by social pressure. Habits and customs of society; usually those that come to be regarded as being essential to the survival and well-being of the society.  

Substances that provide the necessary prerequisites for dye absorption. A substance, such as alum or phenol, used to fix a stain in a tissue. A substance that fixes a stain or dye, as alum and phenol.  

The reported incidence of specified diseases and other health issues.  

The probability that a person will develop a particular disease or disorder.  

An adolescent who is suffering an identity crisis because of confusion or indecision about sex role and/or occupational choice.  

Those values that relate to a person’s behavior or conduct with and treatment of other people.  

An innovative method of treating the mentally ill in “hospitals” during the late eighteenth century. Introduced by Philippe Pinel in 1792 and characterized by removal of the chains and shackles from the mentally ill patients at the Bicetre hospital.  

Concrete decisions pertaining to right and wrong. Also morals, morality. A belief system in which we judge actions and people to be “right” or “wrong”, good or bad. Ethics is the study of morals, which see for further discussion relating moral issues to health care.  

The concept of rules as changeable human conventions based on reciprocal agreement among those who use them.