Preventive medicine is among the most expansive
activities in contemporary healthcare. The
discipline however faces major practical, ethical
and epistemic challenges. Linn Getz argues that
individually oriented preventive medicine is
becoming so risk focused, technified and
dehumanized that its integrity and clinical
potential may begin to deteriorate. Departing from
everyday, clinical scenarios including
cardiovascular disease prevention and pregnancy
care, she documents that the current knowledge
foundation and theoretical underpinnings
of modern, preventive medicine are too...