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Personalized Medicine in the Making : Philosophical Perspectives from Biology to Healthcare, Paperback / softback Book

Personalized Medicine in the Making : Philosophical Perspectives from Biology to Healthcare Paperback / softback

Edited by Chiara Beneduce, Marta Bertolaso

Part of the Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology series

Paperback / softback

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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.

Chapter 16, “The Impact of Fantasy” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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