The Ethics of Precision Medicine
The Problems of Prevention in Healthcare
$90.99
- Paperback
210 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2024
Summary
Paul Scherz explores the ethical challenges raised by precision medicine and its focus on medical risk as opposed to current disease.
Genetic technologies and artificial intelligence are rapidly changing the landscape of medical practice and patient care. In the emerging field of precision medicine, a patient’s risk factors—especially genetic risk factors—are incorporated into an all-encompassing plan to prevent future disease. But identifying at-risk individuals thro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780268209063 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0268209065 |
| Author: | Paul Scherz |
| Publisher: | University of Notre Dame Press |
| Imprint: | University of Notre Dame Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 210 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2024 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics |
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Critics Review
“The Ethics of Precision Medicine offers a way of distinguishing high risk that medicine can reduce without undue adverse consequences from the much broader category of risk that is part of being human.” - Farr Curlin, co-author of The Way of Medicine
“While Scherz’s book would be well received by bioethicists and moral philosophers focused on questions at the intersection of technology, economics, and clinical decision-making, the project’s compactness and accessibility renders it the rare bioethics work that might serve as a clarion call for clinicians themselves—and one especially germane in the current AI-driven and healthcare debt-obsessed cultural moment.” - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
”[A] well-researched, deep, and probing exploration of an area of medicine that often escapes critique in mainstream medical and bioethical discourse.” - The Review of Metaphysics
“The Ethics of Precision Medicine is an insightful book and a healthy corrective for folks like myself who were almost entirely blind to the risks of precision medicine. There are great risks in trying to minimize all risks.” - Word on Fire
“Interesting and provocative … Scherz makes similar claims about preventive medicine: the focus on risk moves the anxiety and alienation of illness—the sense that one’s body has betrayed one, and that more betrayal is in store—to the realm of experienced health.” - Public Discourse
Paul Scherz
Paul Scherz is the Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well.
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