Personalized Medicine in the Making Philosophical Perspectives from Biology to Healthcare

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...

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Other Authors: Beneduce, Chiara (Editor), Bertolaso, Marta (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Personalized Medicine and Complex Diseases
  • Chapter 1. Personalized Treatments: Where Patient’s History and Biological Background Meet (Mariano Bizzarri)
  • Chapter 2. Why Precision Oncology is not Very Precise (and why this should not surprise us) (Anya Plutynski)
  • Chapter 3. Conceptual and Theoretical Specifications towards Accuracy in Medicine (Maël Montévil)
  • Part II: Personalized Medicine and Nutrition
  • Chapter 4. Personalized Nutrition: Overrated or Misconceived? (Vincenzo Fogliano et al)
  • Part III: Personalized Medicine and New Bio-technologies
  • Chapter 5. Drug Safety and Personalized Medicine: a Possible Interaction through E-Synthesis? (Francesco De Pretis et al)
  • Chapter 6. Organoids and Mouse Avatars in Personalized Medicine – Towards a Science of the Individual? (Sara Green)
  • Part IV: Personalized Medicine and Ethics of Innovation
  • Chapter 7. From Ecogenetics to Exposomics: What is New in Molecular Epidemiology? (Xavier Guchet)
  • Chapter 8. Personalized Medicine and Research Biobanking: from Traditional Informed Consent to Participatory governance (Antonella Ficorilli)
  • Chapter 9. A GDPR-compliant blockchain-based system for sharing synthetic data and for computation “bringing the algorithms to the data” (Edwin Fletcher)
  • Part V: Personalized Medicine: the Societal and Economical Impact
  • Chapter 10. U.S. Opioid Epidemic: An Integral Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Prognosis (Maria Sophia Aguirre)
  • Chapter 11. TBA (Roger Strand)
  • Chapter 12. TBA (Massimo Ciccozzi)