Article ID: CBB416070087

Rethinking health and disease in the era of personalized medicine (2021)

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Genome-based medicine, usually referred to as personalized medicine, aims to provide tailored treatments for a single patient according to his/her genome. Thanks to correlations between genotype and phenotype, it is also able to assess the chances of developing a disease given to the presence of a specific genetic mutation. Within the aforementioned paradigm, the first challenge to address is to properly define what is usually meant by the expression ‘personalized medicine’, specifying the methodologies it uses and the premises it is based on. Then it appears fundamental to discuss whether and how such vision entails any change for our theoretical concepts of health and disease. I will argue that this is the case and, in particular, that being able to predict the probability of diseases’ occurrence can significantly affect our philosophical concepts of disease, illness, and sickness in different ways.

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Authors & Contributors
Lee, Sandra Soo-Jin
Foster, Laura A.
Marco D. Ornelas-Cruces
Alonso-Pavón, José Antonio
Erica Torrens-Rojas
Larry Au
Concepts
Genetics
Genomics
Medicine
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Disease and diseases
Race
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Mexico
United States
South Africa
China
Belgium
Wisconsin (U.S.)
Institutions
Human Genome Project
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