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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Bibliographic Details
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
Table of Contents:
  • A reality check for personalized medicine
  • "Your genetic information should be controlled by you" : personalized genetic testing
  • Pharmacogenetics : one patient, one drug?
  • "Your birth day gift" : banking cord blood
  • Enhancement technologies : feeling more like myself
  • "The ancient, useless, dangerous, and filthy rite of vaccination" : public health, public enemy?
  • Reclaiming biomedicine for the common good.

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