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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Beneduce, Chiara (Editor), Bertolaso, Marta (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Series:	Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology, 3
Subjects:	Medicine-Philosophy. Social sciences. Humanities. Medical sciences. Biotechnology. Philosophy of Medicine. Humanities and Social Sciences. Health Sciences. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	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. .
Physical Description:	1 online resource (XIX, 326 pages 1 illustrations.)
ISBN:	9783030748043
ISSN:	2661-8923 ;
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-030-74804-3