The Politics Of Personalised Medicine

Author : Adam Hedgecoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139456548

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The Politics of Personalised Medicine by Adam Hedgecoe Pdf

Pharmacogenetics, the use of genetic testing to prescribe and develop drugs, has been hailed as a revolutionary development for the pharmaceutical industry and modern medicine. Supporters of 'personalised medicine' claim the result will be safer, cheaper, more effective drugs, and their arguments are beginning to influence policy debates. Based on interviews with clinicians, researchers, regulators and company representatives, this book explores the impact of pharmacogenetics on clinical practice, following two cases of personalised medicine as they make their way from the laboratory to the clinic. It highlights the significant differences between the views of supporters of pharmacogenetics in industry and those who use the technology at the clinical 'coal face'. Theoretically, this work builds on the developing area of the sociology of socio-technical expectations, highlighting the way in which promoters of new technologies build expectations around it, through citation and the creation of technological visions.

Author : Britta Chongkol van Beers,Britta van Beers,Sigrid Sterckx,Donna Dickenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108473910

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Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good by Britta Chongkol van Beers,Britta van Beers,Sigrid Sterckx,Donna Dickenson Pdf

Asks whether personalised medicine is superior to 'one-size-fits-all' treatment. Does it elevate individual choice above the common good?

Author : Barbara Prainsack
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781479856909

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Personalized Medicine by Barbara Prainsack Pdf

Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a reality Medicine has been personal long before the concept of “personalized medicine” became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual characteristics of their patients when diagnosing, and treating them. Patients have cared for themselves and for each other, contributed to medical research, and advocated for new treatments. Given this history, why has the notion of personalized medicine gained so much traction at the beginning of the new millennium? Personalized Medicine investigates the recent movement for patients’ involvement in how they are treated, diagnosed, and medicated; a movement that accompanies the increasingly popular idea that people should be proactive, well-informed participants in their own healthcare. While it is often the case that participatory practices in medicine are celebrated as instances of patient empowerment or, alternatively, are dismissed as cases of patient exploitation, Barbara Prainsack challenges these views to illustrate how personalized medicine can give rise to a technology-focused individualism, yet also present new opportunities to strengthen solidarity. Facing the future, this book reveals how medicine informed by digital, quantified, and computable information is already changing the personalization movement, providing a contemporary twist on how medical symptoms or ailments are shared and discussed in society. Bringing together empirical work and critical scholarship from medicine, public health, data governance, bioethics, and digital sociology, Personalized Medicine analyzes the challenges of personalization driven by patient work and data. This compelling volume proposes an understanding that uses novel technological practices to foreground the needs and interests of patients, instead of being ruled by them.

Author : Jochen Vollmann,Verena Sandow,Jan Schildmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317033721

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The Ethics of Personalised Medicine by Jochen Vollmann,Verena Sandow,Jan Schildmann Pdf

In recent times, the phrase ’personalised medicine’ has become the symbol of medical progress and a label for better health care in the future. However, a controversial debate has developed around whether these promises of better, more personal and more cost-efficient medicine are realistic. This book brings together leading researchers from across Europe and North America, from both normative and empirical disciplines, who take a more critical view of the often encountered hype associated with personalised medicine. Partially drawing on a four year collaborative research project funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research, the book presents a multidisciplinary debate on the current state of research on the ethical, legal and social implications of personalised medicine. At a time when future health care is a topic of much discussion, this book provides valuable policy recommendations for the way forward. This study will be of interest to researchers from various disciplines including philosophy, bioethics, law and social sciences.

Author : Chiara Beneduce,Marta Bertolaso
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030748043

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Personalized Medicine in the Making by Chiara Beneduce,Marta Bertolaso Pdf

This book offers a multidisciplinary look at the much-debated concept of “personalized medicine”. By combining a humanistic and a scientific approach, the book builds up a multidimensional way to understand the limits and potentialities of a personalized approach in medicine and healthcare. The book reflects on personalized medicine and complex diseases, the relationship between personalized medicine and the new bio-technologies, personalized medicine and personalized nutrition, and on some ethical, political, economic, and social implications of personalized medicine. This volume is of interest to researchers from several disciplines including philosophy, bio-medicine, and the social sciences. Chapter 16, “The Impact of Fantasy” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Kewal K. Jain
Publisher : Humana Press
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781493925537

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Textbook of Personalized Medicine by Kewal K. Jain Pdf

Advances in the technology used in personalized medicine and increased applications for clinical use have created a need for this expansion and revision of Kewal K. Jain’s Textbook of Personalized Medicine. As the first definitive work on this topic, this book reviews the fundamentals and development of personalized medicine and subsequent adoptions of the concepts by the biopharmaceutical industry and the medical profession. It also discusses examples of applications in key therapeutic areas, as well as ethical and regulatory issues, providing a concise and comprehensive source of reference for those involved in healthcare management, planning and politics. Algorithms are included as a guide to those involved in the management of important diseases where decision-making is involved due to the multiple choices available. Textbook of Personalized Medicine, Second Edition will serve as a convenient source of information for physicians, scientists, decision makers in the biopharmaceutical and healthcare industries and interested members of the public.

Author : Vincenzo Costigliola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789400746022

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Healthcare Overview by Vincenzo Costigliola Pdf

In healthcare, the realisation of an optimistic prognosis against pessimistic ones depends on current innovations in diagnostic and cost-effective treatment approaches being widely adopted in clinical practice. Utilisation of advanced early and predictive diagnostics, targeted prevention and personalised medical approaches could enable the elderly subpopulation to reach the 100-year age limit in good physical and mental health, as actively contributing members of society. This task requires intelligent political regulations and creation of new guidelines to advance current healthcare systems. In this book, we will collect contributions from several geopolitical regions of Europe, Asia and USA that provide expert opinion on healthcare organisation and outlook as well as economical aspects of personalised medicine.

Author : Anne Kerr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1526141027

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Personalised Cancer Medicine by Anne Kerr Pdf

Author : Uta Kohl,Jacob Eisler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781108835695

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Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law by Uta Kohl,Jacob Eisler Pdf

This book critiques the use of algorithms to pre-empt personal choices in its profound effect on markets, democracy and the rule of law.

Author : Richard Tutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317129400

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Genomics and the Reimagining of Personalized Medicine by Richard Tutton Pdf

Drawing on insights from work in medical history and sociology, this book analyzes changing meanings of personalized medicine over time, from the rise of biomedicine in the twentieth century, to the emergence of pharmacogenomics and personal genomics in the 1990s and 2000s. In the past when doctors championed personalization they did so to emphasize that patients had unique biographies and social experiences in the name of caring for their patients as individuals. However, since the middle of the twentieth century, geneticists have successfully promoted the belief that genes are implicated in why some people develop diseases and why some have adverse reactions to drugs when others do not. In doing so, they claim to offer a new way of personalizing the prediction, prevention and treatment of disease. As this book shows, the genomic reimagining of personalized medicine centres on new forms of capitalization and consumption of genetic information. While genomics promises the ultimate individualization of medicine, the author argues that personalized medicine exists in the imaginative gap between the problems and limits of current scientific practices and future prospects to individualize medical interventions. A rigorous, critical examination of the promises of genomics to transform the economics and delivery of medicine, Genomics and the Reimagining of Personalized Medicine examines the consequences of the shift towards personalization for the way we think about and act on health and disease in society. As such, it will be of interest to scholars and students of the sociology of medicine and health, science and technology studies, and health policy.

Author : James Tabery
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780525658207

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Tyranny of the Gene by James Tabery Pdf

A revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed the unfulfilled promise of personalized medicine at the center of American medicine The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine—the tailoring of health care to our genomes—have promised to usher in a new era of miracle cures. Advocates of this gene-guided health-care practice foresee a future where skyrocketing costs can be curbed by customization and unjust disparities are vanquished by biomedical breakthroughs. Progress, however, has come slowly, and with a price too high for the average citizen. In Tyranny of the Gene, James Tabery exposes the origin story of personalized medicine—essentially a marketing idea dreamed up by pharmaceutical executives—and traces its path from the Human Genome Project to the present, revealing how politicians, influential federal scientists, biotech companies, and drug giants all rallied behind the genetic hype. The result is a medical revolution that privileges the few at the expense of health care that benefits us all. Now American health care, driven by the commercialization of biomedical research, is shifting focus away from the study of the social and environmental determinants of health, such as access to fresh and nutritious food, exposure to toxic chemicals, and stress caused by financial insecurity. Instead, it is increasingly investing in “miracle pills” for leukemia that would bankrupt most users, genetic studies of minoritized populations that ignore structural racism and walk dangerously close to eugenic conclusions, and oncology centers that advertise the perfect gene-drug match, igniting a patient’s hope, and often dashing it later.Tyranny of the Gene sounds a warning cry about the current trajectory of health care and charts a path to a more equitable alternative.

Author : Shubha Ghosh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139560597

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Identity, Invention, and the Culture of Personalized Medicine Patenting by Shubha Ghosh Pdf

What are the normative implications of patenting in the area of personalized medicine? As patents on genes and medical diagnoses have increased over the past decade, this question lies at the intersection of intellectual property theory, identity politics, biomedical ethics and constitutional law. These patents are part of the personalized medicine industry, which develops medical treatments tailored to individuals based on race and other characteristics. This book provides an overview of developments in personalized medicine patenting and suggests policies to best regulate such patents.

Author : Alan Petersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136821592

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The Politics of Bioethics by Alan Petersen Pdf

Recent rapid advances in the biosciences have led to considerable debate about the social, ethical, and legal implications of research and its applications. The mapping of the human genome, advances in cloning techniques, the harvesting of embryonic stem cells for research, increasing use of genetic testing in healthcare, and the development of large-scale genetic databases have not only generated high expectations about new diagnostics and treatments but also considerable widespread fear about their consequences. This book offers a critical appraisal of bioethics and its implications as it pertains to the fields of health and medicine and public health, with a particular emphasis on recent technological innovations as they provide a noteworthy exemplar of the power of bioethics in shaping policies, practices and notions of societal benefits. Whereas other books have tended to examine ethical dilemmas and challenges of applying ethical principles, often in relation to a limited array of issues, this book investigates the socio-political implications of bioethics discourse and practices in relation to a range of controversial (or potentially controversial) developments. Providing a benchmark for future debate and scholarly work, this volume will be of interest to policymakers, clinicians, scholars, and others who are looking for new ways of making sense and evaluating recent developments in the field of bioethics.

Author : Romina Prziklas Druzeta,Marinko Škare,Sandra Kraljević Pavelić
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 168507393X

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Novel Perspectives in Economics of Personalized Medicine and Healthcare Systems by Romina Prziklas Druzeta,Marinko Škare,Sandra Kraljević Pavelić Pdf

"The book Novel Perspectives in Economics of Personalized Medicine and Healthcare Systems represents a valuable interdisciplinary contribution created to fill an existing gap in the field of health economics and healthcare systems. The book brings the latest insights from the growing field of health economics and healthcare systems. It deals with various economic, technological, sociological, ethical, legal and philosophical implications and questions arising from the development and implementation of personalized medicine. It is unprecedented in combining practical guidelines for the use of economic tools and techniques with an analysis of the current process of decision-making in the health service sector. The book also provides several insights into the factors that determine human health, the socioeconomic aspects of population aging and the social implications of the evolving burden of disease. Some contributions are highly innovative and cover extremely relevant branches of medicine such as oncology, neurology and endocrinology. In addition, in a brave, yet professional and sovereign manner, the book covers the issue of biological predictors of health outcomes; though they are currently mainly used as global analytical methods, they are yet to be applied or have only recently been applied in clinical medicine. Further, it provides an example from traditional Korean medicine, a proven and valuable tool for personalized medical healthcare. This edition is unique in the sense that 30 chapters were written by 41 authors, all of them experts in their respective fields of research. The authors hail from Croatia, Hungary, South Korea and the United States. The volume is intended to serve as valuable teaching material for university students, as well as a reference book for research scholars, policymakers, business executives, health managers, physicians and freelance readers"--

Author : Nada Bodiroga-Vukobrat,Daniel Rukavina,Krešimir Pavelić,Gerald G. Sander
Publisher : Springer
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030164652

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Personalized Medicine in Healthcare Systems by Nada Bodiroga-Vukobrat,Daniel Rukavina,Krešimir Pavelić,Gerald G. Sander Pdf

This book gathers scientific contributions on comprehensive approaches to personalized medicine. In a systematic and clear manner, it provides extensive information on the methodological, technological, and clinical aspects of high-throughput analytics, nanotechnology approaches, microbiota/human interactions, in-vitro fertilization and preimplantation, and various diseases like cancer.Moreover, the book analyzes the social and legal aspects of social security systems, healthcare systems and EU law – e.g. the role of solidarity, regulatory possibilities and obstacles, justice and equality, privacy/disclosure of data, and the right to know – from an interdisciplinary perspective. Lastly, it explores the economical and ethical context in the fields of business models, intellectual property issues, the patient/physician relationship, and price discrimination.