Ethics of Precision Medicine
The Problems of Prevention in Healthcare

By (author) Paul Scherz

ISBN13: 9780268209056

Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

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Published: 01/10/2024

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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 heathcare, 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.
Acknowledgements Preface Part 1. The Shift to Prevention 1. Suspicion of the Body 2. Sicken to Shun Sickness 3. Genetics and Risk 4. Individuals and Populations 5. Public Health Ethics and Clinical Ethics Part 2. Ethical Problems of Prevention 6. The Limitless Demand for Health 7. Managing Populations 8. The Obligation of Health 9. Exclusion and Elimination 10. Caring for the Statistical Other Part 3. Addressing the Problems of Prevention 11. Prevention and the Social Determinants of Health 12. Regimen 13. Genomics in the Identification and Treatment of Disease 14. Institutions for Slow Medicine Bibliography
  • Ethics & moral philosophy
  • Medical ethics & professional conduct
  • Professional & Vocational
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