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

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

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Beers, Britta Chongkol van, 1977- (Editor), Sterckx, Sigrid (Editor), Dickenson, Donna (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Cambridge bioethics and law.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Personalised Medicine and the Politics of Human Nuclear Genome Transfer; 3 Stem Cell-Derived Gametes and Uterus Transplants: Hurray for the End of Third-Party Reproduction! Or Not?; 4 Personalising Future Health Risk through 'Biological Insurance': Proliferation of Private Umbilical Cord Blood Banking in India; 5 Combating the Trade in Organs: Why We Should Preserve the Communal Nature of Organ Transplantation.
  • 6 When There Is No Cure: Challenges for Collective Approaches to Alzheimer's Disease7 Lost and Found: Relocating the Individual in the Age of Intensified Data Sourcing in European Healthcare; 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; 9 My Genome, My Right; 10 'The Best Me I Can Possibly Be': Legal Subjectivity, Self-Authorship and Wrongful Life Actions in an Age of 'Genomic Torts'; 11 I Run, You Run, We Run: A Philosophical Approach to Health and Fitness Apps.
  • 12 The Molecularised Me: Psychoanalysing Personalised Medicine and Self-TrackingBibliography; Index.