Personalized Medicine - Empowered Patients in the 21st Century? by Barbara Prainsack, New York (NYU Press).
Many people hope that Personalised Medicine will help to tailor diagnosis and therapy more closely to individual characteristics of patients and save costs at the same time. This book analyses policies and practices of Personalised Medicine against the backdrop of larger societal and economic trends, as well as in the context of related developments in health and science policy. Barbara Prainsack argues that Personalised Medicine does not inevitably undermine solidaristic healthcare; in order to avoid a radical individualisation of responsibility in the healthcare field it is, however, necessary to reconsider the structuring principles of contemporary healthcare systems and create new incentives.
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The Table of Contents and Introduction can be found here: https://nyupress.org/books/9781479814589/
