Individualized Medicine Ethical, Economical and Historical Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fischer, Tobias (Editor), Langanke, Martin (Editor), Marschall, Paul (Editor), Michl, Susanne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine, 7
• Subjects: Medicine.; Business.; Management science.; History.; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Business and Management, general.; History, general.

In 2009 the University Medicine Greifswald launched the “Greifswald Approach to Individualized Medicine” (GANI_MED) to implement biomarker-based individualized diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in clinical settings. Individualized Medicine (IM) has led not only to controversies about its potenti...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Definition and concept of Individualized Medicine
• Perspectives of socio-cultural and historical studies
• Medical perspectives
• Concept-based ethical questions
• Applied research ethics
• Health economic assessment of Individualized Medicine
• Conclusions and recommendations
• Index.