Personalized Medicine in the Making

Pages:
333
Language:
English
Format:
PDF
Size:
3 MB
ISBN-10:
3030748030
ISBN-13:
978-3030748036, 9783030748036
ASIN:
B09V2CQB8F
(Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology, 3) 1st ed. 2022 Edition

by Chiara Beneduce (Editor), Marta Bertolaso (Editor)

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 reflects on personalized medicine and complex diseases, the relationship between personalized medicine and the new bio-technologies, personalized medicine and personalized nutrition, and on some ethical, political, economic, and social implications of personalized medicine. This volume is of interest to researchers from several disciplines including philosophy, bio-medicine, and the social sciences.