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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 268-206. - Index
This edition also issued in print: 2022. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 18, 2022)
Beschreibung:
Providing a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary discussion of the ethos and ethics of precision/personal medicine, this book presents scientists who have shaped the field, in dialogue with ethicists, social scientists and philosophers of science.
"In the past twenty years, "personalized medicine" and "precision medicine" have become synonymous. Both terms have been knowledge oriented. Medicine should become "personalized" because it is based on information about the person; "precise" because it is based on information differentiating one person from others. This information is produced by means of informatics ("big data science") of personal biomarkers, especially genetic. Thus, medical information has been taking the lion share in of medical knowledge. In the second chapter of this book, Diego Gracia discusses the metaphysical and epistemological implications of the displacement of medical knowledge by personal information"--