Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good
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Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good

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Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Personalised Medicine and the Politics of Human Nuclear Genome Transfer
  10. 3 Stem Cell-Derived Gametes and Uterus Transplants: Hurray for the End of Third-Party Reproduction! Or Not?
  11. 4 Personalising Future Health Risk through ā€˜Biological Insuranceā€™: Proliferation of Private Umbilical Cord Blood Banking in India
  12. 5 Combating the Trade in Organs: Why We Should Preserve the Communal Nature of Organ Transplantation
  13. 6 When There Is No Cure: Challenges for Collective Approaches to Alzheimerā€™s Disease
  14. 7 Lost and Found: Relocating the Individual in the Age of Intensified Data Sourcing in European Healthcare
  15. 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
  16. 9 My Genome, My Right
  17. 10 ā€˜The Best Me I Can Possibly Beā€™: Legal Subjectivity, Self-Authorship and Wrongful Life Actions in an Age of ā€˜Genomic Tortsā€™
  18. 11 I Run, You Run, We Run: A Philosophical Approach to Health and Fitness Apps
  19. 12 The Molecularised Me: Psychoanalysing Personalised Medicine and Self-Tracking
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index