Me Medicine vs. We Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Me Medicine vs. We Medicine write by Donna Dickenson. This book was released on 2013-05-28. Me Medicine vs. We Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, pharmacogenetically developed therapies in cancer care, private umbilical cord blood banking, and neurocognitive enhancement claim to cater to an individual's specific biological character, and, in some cases, these technologies have shown powerful potential. Yet in others they have produced negligible or even negative results. Donna Dickenson examines the economic and political factors fueling the Me Medicine phenomenon and explores how, over time, this paradigm shift in how we approach our health might damage our individual and collective well-being. Drawing on the latest findings from leading scientists, social scientists, and political analysts, she critically examines four possible hypotheses driving the Me Medicine moment: a growing sense of threat; a wave of patient narcissism; corporate interests driving new niche markets; and the dominance of personal choice as a cultural value. She concludes with insights from political theory that emphasize a conception of the commons and the steps we can take to restore its value to modern biotechnology.
Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good
Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good write by Britta Chongkol van Beers. This book was released on 2018-11-22. Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Asks whether personalised medicine is superior to 'one-size-fits-all' treatment. Does it elevate individual choice above the common good?
Can Medicine Be Cured?
Can Medicine Be Cured? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Can Medicine Be Cured? write by Seamus O'Mahony. This book was released on 2019-02-07. Can Medicine Be Cured? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. By the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now. Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be 'conquered' ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project. And he highlights one of the most dangerous errors of industrialized medicine: an over-reliance on metrics, and a neglect of things that can't easily be measured, like compassion. 'A deeply fascinating and rousing book' Mail on Sunday. 'What makes this book a delightful, if unsettling read, is not just O'Mahony's scholarly and witty prose, but also his brutal honesty' The Times.
Less Medicine, More Health
Less Medicine, More Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Less Medicine, More Health write by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Less Medicine, More Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A nationally recognized expert describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care—for readers of Overdiagnosed and Malcolm Gladwell You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too uneven, too complicated—and gives you too many forms to fill out. But the central problem is that too much medical care has too little value. Dr. H. Gilbert Welch is worried about too much medical care. He doesn’t deny that some people get too little medical care—rather that the conventional concern about “too little” needs to be balanced with a concern about “too much”: too many people being made to worry about diseases they don’t have and are at only average risk to get; too many people being tested and exposed to the harmful effects of the testing process; too many people being subjected to treatments they don’t need or can’t benefit from. The American public has been sold the idea that seeking medical care is one of the most important steps to maintain wellness. Surprisingly, medical care is not, in fact, well correlated with good health. More medicine does not equal more health; in reality the opposite may be true. In Less Medicine, More Health, Dr. Welch pushes against established wisdom and suggests that medical care can be too aggressive. Drawing on his twenty-five years of medical practice and research, he notes that while economics and lawyers contribute to the excesses of American medicine, the problem is essentially created when the general public clings to these powerful assumptions about the value of tests and treatments—a number of which are just plain wrong. By telling fascinating (and occasionally amusing) stories backed by reliable data, Dr. Welch challenges patients and the health-care establishment to rethink some very fundamental practices. His provocative prescriptions hold the potential to save money and, more important, improve health outcomes for us all.
Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good
Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good write by Britta van Beers. This book was released on 2018-11-22. Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hippocrates famously advised doctors 'it is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has'. Yet 2,500 years later, 'personalised medicine', based on individual genetic profiling and the achievements of genomic research, claims to be revolutionary. In this book, experts from a wide range of disciplines critically examine this claim. They expand the discussion of personalised medicine beyond its usual scope to include many other highly topical issues, including: human nuclear genome transfer ('three-parent IVF'), stem cell-derived gametes, private umbilical cord blood banking, international trade in human organs, biobanks such as the US Precision Medicine Initiative, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, health and fitness self-monitoring. Although these technologies often prioritise individual choice, the original ideal of genomic research saw the human genome as 'the common heritage of humanity'. The authors question whether personalised medicine actually threatens this conception of the common good.
