Overview
- Brings together a group of top scholars on the debated concept of “personalized medicine”
- Addresses the the topics from a multidisciplinary point of view
- Shows how a broad interpretation of "personalized medicine" can empower its high potential for improving healthcare
Part of the book series: Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology (HPHST, volume 3)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Personalized Medicine: From Biology to Clinics
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Personalized Technology: From Epistemology to Data Management
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Personalized Healthcare: From Ethics to Policies
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Chiara Beneduce is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science of Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and teaching assistant in the Philosophy of Science at Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome (Italy). Her research is placed at the intersection of the History of Philosophy, the History of Science, and the Philosophy of Medicine. Her research is currently supported by the NWO-Veni Grant number VI.Veni.191F.005 for the project “The Sense of Touch. From Anomaly to Paradigm”.
Marta Bertolaso is Professor of Philosophy of Science at Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome (Italy) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Bergen in collaboration with the CCBIO (Centre for Cancer Biomarkers). After a degree in Biological Sciences and some years in the lab, she developed her academic career in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences. Her expertise in especially in the philosophy of cancer, scientific practiceand the philosophy of complex organized systems. Supported by visiting or scholar fellowships, she has worked in prestigious international research centers for the Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh (PA, USA), Exeter (UK), Paris (France), Vienna (Austria), and Milan (e.g. IFOM of the European Oncology Institute).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Personalized Medicine in the Making
Book Subtitle: Philosophical Perspectives from Biology to Healthcare
Editors: Chiara Beneduce, Marta Bertolaso
Series Title: Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74804-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74803-6Published: 08 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74806-7Published: 09 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74804-3Published: 07 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2661-8915
Series E-ISSN: 2661-8923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 326
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Medicine/Public Health, general, Social Sciences, general