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Does the “new philosophy” in predictive, preventive and personalised medicine require new ethics?

This paper maps the ethical issues that arise in the context of personalised medicine. First, it highlights the ethical problems related to increased predictive power of modern diagnostic interventions. Such problems emerge because the ability to identify individuals or groups of individuals that ca...

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Autores principales: Gefenas, Eugenijus, Cekanauskaite, Asta, Tuzaite, Egle, Dranseika, Vilius, Characiejus, Dainius
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23199143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13167-011-0078-x
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Tuzaite, Egle
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description This paper maps the ethical issues that arise in the context of personalised medicine. First, it highlights the ethical problems related to increased predictive power of modern diagnostic interventions. Such problems emerge because the ability to identify individuals or groups of individuals that can potentially benefit from a particular therapeutic intervention also raises a question of personal responsibility for health-related behaviour and lifestyle. The second major area of ethical concern is related to health prevention and distributive justice. The paper discusses the ethical challenges brought by the personalised medicine in the context of the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine concerning Genetic Testing for Health Purposes. Finally, it notes that the issue of consent in the context of biobanks, the need to rethink the prevalent models of research designs and to communicate relevant findings to the donors of biological materials deserve further discussion.
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spelling pubmed-34053792012-07-27 Does the “new philosophy” in predictive, preventive and personalised medicine require new ethics? Gefenas, Eugenijus Cekanauskaite, Asta Tuzaite, Egle Dranseika, Vilius Characiejus, Dainius EPMA J Review Article This paper maps the ethical issues that arise in the context of personalised medicine. First, it highlights the ethical problems related to increased predictive power of modern diagnostic interventions. Such problems emerge because the ability to identify individuals or groups of individuals that can potentially benefit from a particular therapeutic intervention also raises a question of personal responsibility for health-related behaviour and lifestyle. The second major area of ethical concern is related to health prevention and distributive justice. The paper discusses the ethical challenges brought by the personalised medicine in the context of the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine concerning Genetic Testing for Health Purposes. Finally, it notes that the issue of consent in the context of biobanks, the need to rethink the prevalent models of research designs and to communicate relevant findings to the donors of biological materials deserve further discussion. Springer Netherlands 2011-04-20 2011-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3405379/ /pubmed/23199143 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13167-011-0078-x Text en © European Association for Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine 2011
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Characiejus, Dainius
Does the “new philosophy” in predictive, preventive and personalised medicine require new ethics?
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title_fullStr Does the “new philosophy” in predictive, preventive and personalised medicine require new ethics?
title_full_unstemmed Does the “new philosophy” in predictive, preventive and personalised medicine require new ethics?
title_short Does the “new philosophy” in predictive, preventive and personalised medicine require new ethics?
title_sort does the “new philosophy” in predictive, preventive and personalised medicine require new ethics?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405379/
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