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Personalized Medicine

A New Medical and Social Challenge

  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Personalized Medicine: The Path to New Medicine

    • Krešimir Pavelić, Sandra Kraljević Pavelić, Mirela Sedić
    Pages 1-19
  3. Legal Aspects of Personalized Medicine

    • Ulrich Becker
    Pages 21-29
  4. Personalised Medicine and Public Health

    • Vladimir Mićović, Iva Sorta-Bilajac Turina, Đulija Malatestinić
    Pages 81-93
  5. Personalized Medicine and Technology Transfer

    • Petra Karanikic
    Pages 95-106
  6. Computational Methods for Integration of Biological Data

    • Vladimir Gligorijević, Nataša Pržulj
    Pages 137-178
  7. The Role of Proteomics in Personalized Medicine

    • Djuro Josić, Uroš Andjelković
    Pages 179-218
  8. The Role of Radiology in Personalized Medicine

    • D. Miletić, P. Valković-Zujić, R. Antulov
    Pages 219-230
  9. Implantation of Toric Intraocular Lenses: Personalized Surgery on the Lens

    • Iva Dekaris, Nikica Gabrić, Ante Barišić, Alma Biščević
    Pages 231-240
  10. Personalized Medicine in Gastroenterology

    • Davor Štimac, Neven Franjić
    Pages 257-264
  11. Personalized Medicine in Clinical Pharmacology

    • Dinko Vitezić, Nada Božina, Jasenka Mršić-Pelčić, Viktorija Erdeljić Turk, Igor Francetić
    Pages 265-278

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Jean Monnet Department of European Public Law, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

    Nada Bodiroga-Vukobrat

  • Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Rijeka, Croatia

    Daniel Rukavina

  • Department of Biotechnology, University of Rijeka , Rijeka, Croatia

    Krešimir Pavelić

  • University of Applied Sciences, Hochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung und Finanzen Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany

    Gerald G. Sander

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

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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