Can precision medicine be personal; Can personalized medicine be precise?, 9780198863465
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Precise, personal medicine: Can we have both without losing ourselves?

Can precision medicine be personal; Can personalized medicine be precise?

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    352 pages

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    10 February 2022

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Summary

The Precision Paradox: Navigating the Ethics of Personalized Medicine

People have always sought medical care tailored to the individual. This vision of personal and ‘holistic’ care has persisted alongside the historical development of medical institutions. Patient-centered medicine, interpersonal communication, and shared decision-making are now central to medical practice.

This evolving vision of ‘personalized medicine’ is at the forefront, sparking debates among ethicists,…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198863465
ISBN-10:0198863462
Author:Y. Michael Barilan, Margherita Brusa, Aaron Ciechanover
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:10 February 2022
Weight:426g
Dimensions:217mm x 139mm x 18mm
About The Author

Y. Michael Barilan

Yechiel Michael Barilan was born and educated in Israel. He is an expert in Internal Medicine and is most recently a senior physician in the Covid-19 Dept. and Emergency Dept. Tel Aviv Medical Centre. He is a full professor in the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, specializing in ethics and social history of medicine. He is also a member of national and international ethics committees and is an author of over a hundred peer reviewed academic publications.

Margherita Brusa earned a PhD in bioethics from the University Complutense of Madrid, and a second PhD in paediatric healthcare planning from the University of Padua. She has served in ethics committees in Spain, USA, and Italy, and led the creation of the first ethics committee in the Palestinian Authority. The focus of her research is bioethics and children.

Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli physician and scientist working currently at the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. He received his MD (1972) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and PhD (1982) from the Technion, where along with Professor Avram Hershko and in collaboration with Professor Irwin Rose (Philadelphia, USA) he discovered the Ubiquitin Proteolytic System, a discovery which awarded them numerous prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004). He is a member of many learned bodies, including the National Academies of Sciences and Medicine of the USA (Foreign Associate), and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican.

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