Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good

ISBN-13: 9781108473910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str.

Britta Van Beers; Sigrid Sterckx; Donna Dickenson

Opis

Asks whether personalised medicine is superior to 'one-size-fits-all' treatment. Does it elevate individual choice above the common good?

Recenzje

'The multidisciplinary perspectives offered in this book will make it of interest to a variety of audiences, especially bioethics, law, and philosophy students and academics. It will also be of interest to other scholars studying the intersection of medicine, society, and politics, such as political scientists and communications experts.' Maya Sabatello, Hastings Center Report

Spis treści

1. Introduction to Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good Donna Dickenson, Britta van Beers and Sigrid Sterckx; 2. Personalised medicine and the politics of human nuclear genome transfer Françoise Baylis and Alana Cattapan; 3. Stem cell derived gametes and uterus transplants: hurray for the end of third party reproduction! Or not? Heidi Mertes; 4. Personalising future health risk through 'biological insurance': proliferation of private umbilical cord blood banking in India Jyotsna Gupta; 5. Combating the trade in organs: why we should preserve the communal nature of organ transplantation Kristof Van Assche; 6. When there is no cure: challenges for collective approaches to Alzheimer's disease Robin Pierce; 7. Lost and found: relocating the individual in the age of intensified data sourcing in European healthcare Klaus Hoeyer; 8. 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; 9. My genome, my right Stuart Hogarth, Julian Cockbain and Sigrid Sterckx; 10. 'The best me I can possibly be': legal subjectivity, self-authorship and wrongful life actions in an age of 'genomic torts' Britta van Beers; 11. I run, you run, we run: a philosophical approach to health and fitness apps Marli Huijer and Christian Detweiler; 12. The molecularised me: psychoanalysing personalised medicine and self-tracking Hub Zwart.