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Personalised medicine, individual choice and the common good / edited by Britta Van Beers, Sigrid Sterckx and Donna Dickenson.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Cambridge Bioethics and LawPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 305 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781108473910
- 610 BEE
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Summary: Personalised medicine is often presented as a beneficial revolution, but raises problems about the ownership of genetic information, reduce individual choice, undermine resources for public health and divert attention from the common good. Suitable for readers interested in the development and promotion of individually-tailored medical treatments.
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.
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Kalaignar Centenary Library Madurai | ENGLISH-REFERENCE BOOKS | ஆறாம் தளம் / Sixth floor | 610 BEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 227003 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
Personalised medicine is often presented as a beneficial revolution, but raises problems about the ownership of genetic information, reduce individual choice, undermine resources for public health and divert attention from the common good. Suitable for readers interested in the development and promotion of individually-tailored medical treatments.