Personalised medicine, individual choice and the common good [electronic resource] edited by Britta van Beers, Sigrid Sterckx and Donna Dickenson.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.Description: 1 online resource (305 p.)ISBN:- 9781108590600 (ebook) :
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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?