Personalized Medicine changes our understanding of health and society. It reflects the interaction of new developments in medical science and health care: medical ask prevention, biomarker induced therapeutic approaches, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, cloud computing of medical data, and the demand for "personal" physician-patient-relationship in the "postgenomics era". Personalized Medicine emerges as a multidimensional concept that enables us to analyze current dimensions of medical and pharmaceutical science and practice in an interdisciplinary perspective. On the basis of this epistemic understanding, six challenges of Personalized Medicine are discussed: briefing of relatives about genetic testing results without their informed consent, preventive medicine and prenatal genetic risk prevention, information overload in genetic counseling the ambivalent difference between genetic differentiation and genetic discrimination, challenging the welfare state's medical paradigm of "one fits for all" by individual "genetic fate", and the new dimensions of the "right to genetic ignorance for individual freedom.

Enthalten in:
Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik; 2013/1 Kommentare, Studien, Berichte, Dokumentationen, Diskussionen, Rezensionen, Bibliographie (2013)

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Serie / Reihe: Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik

Personen: Kersten, Jens

Schlagwörter: Recht Information Gerechtigkeit Freiheit Gesellschaft Prävention Gesundheit Medizin Gleichheit Herausforderung Bürokratie