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Personalized medicine, individual choice and the common good / edited by Britta van Beers, Sigrid Sterckx, Donna Dickenson.

Contributor(s): Beers, Britta Chongkol van, 1977- [editor.] | Sterckx, Sigrid [editor.] | Dickenson, Donna [editor.].
Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, ©2018Description: 305 p: cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781108473910 (hardback).Subject(s): Precision Medicine | Personhood | Genome -- ethics | Ethics, Clinical | Philosophy, MedicalGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Introduction to personalised medicine, individual choice and the common good / Donna Dickenson, Britta van Beers and Sigrid Sterckx -- Personalised medicine and the politics of human nuclear genome transfer / Francoise Baylis and Alana Cattapan -- Stem cell derived gametes and uterus transplants : hurray for the end of third party reproduction! or not? / Heidi Mertes -- Personalising future health risk through 'biological insurance' : proliferation of private umbilical cord blood banking in India / Jyotsna Gupta -- Combating the trade in organs : why we should preserve the communal nature of organ transplantation / Kristof Van Assche -- When there is no cure : challenges for collective approaches to Alzheimer's disease / Robin Pierce -- Lost and found : relocating the individual in the age of intensified data sourcing in European healthcare / Klaus Hoeyer -- Presuming the promotion of the common good by large-scale health research : the cases of care.data 2.0 and the 100,000 genomes project in the UK / Sigrid Sterckx, Sandi Dheensa and Julian Cockbain -- My genome, my right / Stuart Hogarth, Julian Cockbain and Sigrid Sterckx -- 'The best me I can possibly be' : legal subjectivity, self-authorship and wrongful life actions in an age of 'genomic torts' / Britta van Beers -- I run, you run, we run : a philosophical approach to health and fitness apps / Marli Huijer and Christian Detweiler -- The molecularised me : psychoanalysing personalised medicine and self-tracking / Hub Zwart.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to personalised medicine, individual choice and the common good / Donna Dickenson, Britta van Beers and Sigrid Sterckx -- Personalised medicine and the politics of human nuclear genome transfer / Francoise Baylis and Alana Cattapan -- Stem cell derived gametes and uterus transplants : hurray for the end of third party reproduction! or not? / Heidi Mertes -- Personalising future health risk through 'biological insurance' : proliferation of private umbilical cord blood banking in India / Jyotsna Gupta -- Combating the trade in organs : why we should preserve the communal nature of organ transplantation / Kristof Van Assche -- When there is no cure : challenges for collective approaches to Alzheimer's disease / Robin Pierce -- Lost and found : relocating the individual in the age of intensified data sourcing in European healthcare / Klaus Hoeyer -- Presuming the promotion of the common good by large-scale health research : the cases of care.data 2.0 and the 100,000 genomes project in the UK / Sigrid Sterckx, Sandi Dheensa and Julian Cockbain -- My genome, my right / Stuart Hogarth, Julian Cockbain and Sigrid Sterckx -- 'The best me I can possibly be' : legal subjectivity, self-authorship and wrongful life actions in an age of 'genomic torts' / Britta van Beers -- I run, you run, we run : a philosophical approach to health and fitness apps / Marli Huijer and Christian Detweiler -- The molecularised me : psychoanalysing personalised medicine and self-tracking / Hub Zwart.

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