Me medicine vs. we medicine : reclaiming biotechnology for the common good /

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Personalized healthcare?or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls?Me Medicine"?is radically transforming our longstanding,?one-size-fits-all" model. Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, pharmacogenetics in cancer care, private umbilical cord blood banking,...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dickenson, Donna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Medicine, Preventive > Moral and ethical aspects.
Patient-centered health care > Moral and ethical aspects.
Biotechnology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Social justice.
Precision Medicine > ethics
Biotechnology > ethics
Public Health Practice > ethics
Social Justice
Médecine préventive > Aspect moral.
Soins centrés sur le patient > Aspect moral.
Biotechnologie > Aspect moral.
Justice sociale.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
SCIENCE > Applied Sciences.
Social justice
Biotechnology > Moral and ethical aspects
Medicine, Preventive > Moral and ethical aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Personalized healthcare?or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls?Me Medicine"?is radically transforming our longstanding,?one-size-fits-all" model. Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, pharmacogenetics in cancer care, private umbilical cord blood banking, and neurocognitive enhancement claim to cater to an individual's specific biological character. In some cases, these technologies have shown powerful potential, yet in others, they have produced negligible or even negative results. Whatever is behind the rise of Me Medicine, it isn't just science. So why is Me Medicine rapidly edging out We Medicine, and how has the commitment in the US to the collective health suffered as a result?
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 278 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231534413
0231534418

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