Overview
- Individualized medicine approaches each patient in a new moral-ethical, legal and socio-economic context
- Innovative treatments and drugs in medicine
- Classification, understanding, treating and preventing disease based on individual biological differences
- Interdisciplinary approach to health and wellbeing of individuals
Part of the book series: Europeanization and Globalization (EAG, volume 2)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book offers comprehensive coverage of the various aspects of personalized medicine as an original approach to classifying, understanding, treating and preventing disease based on individual biological differences. In the introductory section, it defines personalized medicine as a way toward new medical practices and addresses the question: What can personalized medicine offer citizens, medical professionals, reimbursement bodies and stakeholders? Subsequent chapters discuss the technological aspects of personalized medicine: data collection, comprehensive integration and handling of data, together with key enabling factors in developing the requisite technological support for personalized medicine. Lastly, the book explores the main issues shaping the implementation and development of personalized medicine – education, stakeholder participation, infrastructure, a new approach to the classification of disease and medical tests, regulatory frameworks, and new reimbursement models– together with ethical, legal and social issues. Ultimately, the book calls for interdisciplinarity and a radical change in the way we approach the health and wellbeing of individuals.
Target groups are medical doctors and researchers in the field of biomedicine, as well as experts from the social sciences dealing with legal, economic and social aspects of health system issues in general. Though the book will primarily benefit these groups of professional experts, its content will also appeal to a far wider readership, as it deals with a paradigm shift in one of society’s main pillars – the health system.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Personalized Medicine
Book Subtitle: A New Medical and Social Challenge
Editors: Nada Bodiroga-Vukobrat, Daniel Rukavina, Krešimir Pavelić, Gerald G. Sander
Series Title: Europeanization and Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39349-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39347-6Published: 04 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81872-6Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39349-0Published: 27 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2366-0953
Series E-ISSN: 2366-0961
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 278
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Law, Public Health, Biomedicine general