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Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good (Hardcover)
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Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law
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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.
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