Personalized medicine, individual choice and the common good / edited by Britta van Beers, Sigrid Sterckx, Donna Dickenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beers, Britta Chongkol van, 1977- editor.

Sterckx, Sigrid, editor.

Dickenson, Donna, editor.

Series:

Cambridge Bioethics and Law.

Cambridge Bioethics and Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternative medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hippocrates famously advised doctors 'it is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has'. Yet 2,500 years later, 'personalised medicine', based on individual genetic profiling and the achievements of genomic research, claims to be revolutionary. In this book, experts from a wide range of disciplines critically examine this claim. They expand the discussion of personalised medicine beyond its usual scope to include many other highly topical issues, including: human nuclear genome transfer ('three-parent IVF'), stem cell-derived gametes, private umbilical cord blood banking, international trade in human organs, biobanks such as the US Precision Medicine Initiative, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, health and fitness self-monitoring. Although these technologies often prioritise individual choice, the original ideal of genomic research saw the human genome as 'the common heritage of humanity'. The authors question whether personalised medicine actually threatens this conception of the common good.

Contents:

Introduction to personalised medicine, individual choice and the common good / Donna Dickenson, Britta van Beers and Sigrid Sterckx

Personalised medicine and the politics of human nuclear genome transfer / Francoise Baylis and Alana Cattapan

Stem cell derived gametes and uterus transplants : hurray for the end of third party reproduction! or not? / Heidi Mertes

Personalising future health risk through 'biological insurance' : proliferation of private umbilical cord blood banking in India / Jyotsna Gupta

Combating the trade in organs : why we should preserve the communal nature of organ transplantation / Kristof Van Assche

When there is no cure : challenges for collective approaches to Alzheimer's disease / Robin Pierce

Lost and found : relocating the individual in the age of intensified data sourcing in European healthcare / Klaus Hoeyer

Presuming the promotion of the common good by large-scale health research : the cases of care.data 2.0 and the 100,000 genomes project in the UK / Sigrid Sterckx, Sandi Dheensa and Julian Cockbain

My genome, my right / Stuart Hogarth, Julian Cockbain and Sigrid Sterckx

'The best me I can possibly be' : legal subjectivity, self-authorship and wrongful life actions in an age of 'genomic torts' / Britta van Beers

I run, you run, we run : a philosophical approach to health and fitness apps / Marli Huijer and Christian Detweiler

The molecularised me : psychoanalysing personalised medicine and self-tracking / Hub Zwart.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Nov 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-67571-9

1-108-59060-8

1-108-57839-X

OCLC:

1060605562