Anne Cambon-Thomsen
Genetic prediction is at the cross road of the various meanings of the concept of personalized medicine or medicine 4P: Personalized, Preventive, predictive and participative, also called precision medicine or prevision medicine. This entire frame questions i) the place of data in medicine and its consequences on the relation between patients and doctors; ii) the empowerment of people in the management of their own health; iii) the access to health related data outside the health system (tests directly provided to the consumer over the counter)...
June 2014: International Journal of Bioethics