What is it about?
"Personalized medicine" has become a buzzword. It is important to get clear about the messages and connotations that the term has come to carry, and it is even more important to think about the ethically good and bad prospects of personalized medicine and its purported added value for the wellbeing of patients.
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Why is it important?
Medicine today is increasingly being commecializd. "Personalized medicine" is not only promising for patients, it might be even more promising as a new wave for the healthcare industry. That's why it is important to reflect on the realities and rhetorics of "personalized medicine" timely.
Perspectives
"Personalized medicine" sure will benefit some patients. But fomr a medical ethics perspective that includes ideas of justice, a serious moral peril of personalized medicine is that it will cost too much to be available to all who might benefit from it.
Matthias Kettner
Universitat Witten/Herdecke
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This page is a summary of: Ethische und kommunikative Bedeutung der „personalisierten Medizin“, Das Gesundheitswesen, December 2014, Thieme Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1394437.
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