Personalised medicine, individual choice and the common good [electronic resource]
edited by Britta van Beers, Sigrid Sterckx and Donna Dickenson.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
Table of contents: Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Personalised Medicine and the Politics of Human Nuclear Genome Transfer Chapter 3. Stem Cell-Derived Gametes and Uterus Transplants: Hurray for the End of Third-Party Reproduction! Or Not? Chapter 4. Personalising Future Health Risk through 'Biological Insurance': Proliferation of Private Umbilical Cord Blood Banking in India Chapter 5. Combating the Trade in Organs: Why We Should Preserve the Communal Nature of Organ Transplantation. Chapter 6. When There Is No Cure: Challenges for Collective Approaches to Alzheimer's Disease Chapter 7. Lost and Found: Relocating the Individual in the Age of Intensified Data Sourcing in European Healthcare Chapter 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 Chapter 9. My Genome, My Right; Chapter 10. 'The Best Me I Can Possibly Be': Legal Subjectivity, Self-Authorship and Wrongful Life Actions in an Age of 'Genomic Torts' Chapter 11. I Run, You Run, We Run: A Philosophical Approach to Health and Fitness Apps. Chapter 12. The Molecularised Me: Psychoanalysing Personalised Medicine and Self-TrackingBibliography
Includes bibliography and index.
Asks whether personalised medicine is superior to 'one-size-fits-all' treatment. Does it elevate individual choice above the common good?