Overview
- A comprehensive and well-grounded outline of Individualized Medicine
- Presentation and assessment of concrete examples based on multi-year research
- Intensive discussion of barriers for translation concept of Individualized Medicine into clinical routine
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine (APPPM, volume 7)
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In 2009 the University Medicine Greifswald launched the “Greifswald Approach to Individualized Medicine” (GANI_MED) to implement biomarker-based individualized diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in clinical settings. Individualized Medicine (IM) has led not only to controversies about its potentials, but also about its societal, ethical and health economic implications. This anthology focusses on these areas and includes – next to clinical examples illustrating how the integrated analysis of biomarkers leads to significant improvement of therapeutic outcomes for a subgroup of patients – chapters about the definition, history and epistemology of IM. Additionally there is a focus on conceptual philosophical questions as well as challenges for applied research ethics (informed consent process, the IT-based consent management and the handling of incidental findings). Finally it pays attention to health economic aspects. The possibilities of IM to initiate a paradigm shift in the Germanhealth care provision are investigated. Furthermore, it is asked whether the G-DRG system is ready for the implementation of such approaches into clinical routine.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Definition and Concept of Individualized Medicine
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Perspectives of Socio-Cultural and Historical Studies
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Concept-Based Ethical Questions
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Applied Research Ethics
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Health Economic Assessment of Individualized Medicine
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Reviews
“This collection of essays is an interdisciplinary effort to provide a comprehensive overview of individualized medicine. … it is relevant for global researchers and practitioners of individualized medicine. … By carefully gathering a diverse collection of essays, the editors provide us with a much-needed, comprehensive analysis of individualized medicine.” (Kathrine Bendtsen, Doody’s Book Reviews, October, 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Individualized Medicine
Book Subtitle: Ethical, Economical and Historical Perspectives
Editors: Tobias Fischer, Martin Langanke, Paul Marschall, Susanne Michl
Series Title: Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11719-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-11718-8Published: 06 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34698-4Published: 05 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-11719-5Published: 16 January 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-3495
Series E-ISSN: 2211-3509
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 323
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedicine general, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Ethics, Business and Management, general, History, general