Ethics of Precision Medicine

The Problems of Prevention in Healthcare

AvPaul Scherz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Del i serien Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics

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Beskrivning

Paul Scherz explores the ethical challenges raised by precision medicine and its focus on medical risk as opposed to current disease.Genetic technologies and artificial intelligence are rapidly changing the landscape of medical practice and patient care. In the emerging field of precision medicine, a patient's risk factors—especially genetic risk factors—are incorporated into an all-encompassing plan to prevent future disease. But identifying at-risk individuals through technologies such as wearable devices and direct-to-consumer genetic sequencing can undermine the overall experience of health. The potential for overdiagnosis and overtreatment grows as patients are prescribed medications and receive prophylactic surgeries that carry inherent risks. Also, as the medical industry shifts its attention from individuals to trends in the general population, the one-to-one practitioner-patient relationship becomes strained.Using the lens of virtue ethics and theological bioethics, The Ethics of Precision Medicine offers suggestions for better implementing precision medicine to treat those currently suffering from or at high risk of disease, while also recognizing that effectively preventing disease depends, ultimately, on addressing the social determinants of health. The book provides a new perspective on the problems of contemporary healthcare, proposing practical steps that individuals and institutions can take to ensure that the advanced technologies of precision medicine can be used to promote human flourishing.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics
Antal sidor:210
Förlag:University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN:9780268209056
Utmärkelser:Commended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Health) 2024

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Paul Scherz is the Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020).

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"The Ethics of Precision Medicine offers a way of distinguishing high risk that medicine can reduce without undue adverse consequences from the much broader category of risk that is part of being human." —Farr Curlin, co-author of The Way of Medicine"The Ethics of Precision Medicine is an insightful book and a healthy corrective for folks like myself who were almost entirely blind to the risks of precision medicine. There are great risks in trying to minimize all risks." —Word on Fire"While Scherz's book would be well received by bioethicists and moral philosophers focused on questions at the intersection of technology, economics, and clinical decision-making, the project's compactness and accessibility renders it the rare bioethics work that might serve as a clarion call for clinicians themselves—and one especially germane in the current AI-driven and healthcare debt-obsessed cultural moment." —Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics"Interesting and provocative . . . Scherz makes similar claims about preventive medicine: the focus on risk moves the anxiety and alienation of illness—the sense that one's body has betrayed one, and that more betrayal is in store—to the realm of experienced health." —Public Discourse

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsPrefacePart 1. The Shift to Prevention1. Suspicion of the Body2. Sicken to Shun Sickness3. Genetics and Risk4. Individuals and Populations5. Public Health Ethics and Clinical EthicsPart 2. Ethical Problems of Prevention6. The Limitless Demand for Health7. Managing Populations8. The Obligation of Health9. Exclusion and Elimination10. Caring for the Statistical OtherPart 3. Addressing the Problems of Prevention11. Prevention and the Social Determinants of Health12. Regimen13. Genomics in the Identification and Treatment of Disease14. Institutions for Slow MedicineBibliography

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