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Title Personalised medicine, individual choice and the common good / edited by Britta Van Beers, Sigrid Sterckx, Donna Dickenson
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Cambridge bioethics and law
Cambridge bioethics and law.
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
Summary Asks whether personalised medicine is superior to 'one-size-fits-all' treatment. Does it elevate individual choice above the common good?
Analysis law; medicine; medico legal; bioethics and health law; ethics; philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 5, 2018)
Subject Precision medicine
Genomes.
Medical ethics.
Medicine -- Philosophy.
Precision Medicine
Personhood
Genome -- ethics
Ethics, Clinical
Philosophy, Medical
Genome
Ethics, Medical
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
Medicine -- Philosophy
Genomes
Medical ethics
Precision medicine
Form Electronic book
Author Beers, Britta Chongkol van, 1977- editor.
Sterckx, Sigrid, editor.
Dickenson, Donna, editor.
ISBN 9781108578394
110857839X
9781108590600
1108590608