The ethics of personalised medicine : critical perspectives / edited by Jochen Vollmann, Verena Sandow, Sebastian Wäscher and Jan Schildmann, Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Surrey, England : Ashgate, [2015]

xxviii, 285 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm

What is personalized medicine? : sharpening a vague term based on a systematic literature review / Sebastian Schleidgen, Corinna Klingler, Teresa Bertram, Wolf H. Rogowski, and Georg Marckmann -- Alarming symptoms of a paradigm shift? : an approach to bridge the gap between hypothetical ethics and the current status of individualised medicine research / Tobias Fischer, Marcus Dörr, Robin Haring, and Martin Langanke -- Personalized medicine : getting past the controversies / George P. Browman -- Patient as person in personalised medicine : autonomy, responsibility and the body / Thomas Wabel -- The authority of corporeality and emotions : the new phenomenology and its relevance to the german debate on personalised medicine / Mathias Wirth -- Towards integration of "personalised" and "person-centred" medicine : the concept of "integrative and personalised health care" / Peter Heusser -- Ethical considerations for developing a best-practice guideline for next generation sequencing in oncology / Eva Winkler, Klaus Tanner, Hanno Glimm, and Christof von Kalle -- Practice variation across consent templates for biobank research : a survey of german biobanks / Irene Hirschberg, Hannes Knüppel, and Daniel Strech -- Individualised medicine in the diagnosis and prognosis of patients younger than 65 years with normal karyotype acute myeloid leukemia : a systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of MS-related tyrosine kinase 3 internal tandem duplication (FLT3-ITD) / Matthias Port, Miriam Böttcher, Felicitas Thol, Nicole Trachte, Jürgen Wasem, Arnold Ganser, Laura Pouryamout, and Anja Neumann -- Taking it personally : patients' perspectives on personalised medicine and its ethical relevance / Sabine Wöhlke, Julia Perry and Silke Schicktanz -- "Personalised medicine" in oncology : physicians' perspectives on contributions to and challenges for clinical practice / Sebastian Wäscher, Jan Schildmann, Caroline Brall, and Jochen Vollmann -- Through thick and big : data-rich medicine in the era of personalisation / Barbara Prainsack -- Benefit assessment of personalised interventions : methodological challenges and approaches to a solution / Jürgen Windeler and Stefan Lange -- The relevance of the analytic validity of genetic biomarker tests in personalised medicine in oncology / Franz P. Hessel -- Approval and reimbursement of personalised drugs : interim results of the adjustment process / Michael Noweski, Anke Walendzik, Franz Hessel, Rebecca Jahn, and Jürgen Wasem -- Criteria for fairly allocating scarce health-care resources to genetic tests : which matter most? / Wolf H. Rogowski, Scott D. Grosse, Jorg Schmidtke, and Georg Marckmann -- Personalised medicine as orphan drugs? : legal and ethical questions / Sina Gottwald and Stefan Huster -- Personalised medicine : priority setting and opportunity costs in european public health-care systems / Jochen Vollmann -- "Personalised medicine" : multidisciplinary perspectives and interdisciplinary recommendations on a framework for future research and practice / Jan Schildmann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.