Personalized Medicine in the Making

This book offers a multidisciplinary look at the much-debated concept of ¿personalized medicine¿. By combining a humanistic and a scientific approach, the book builds up a multidimensional way to understand the limits and potentialities of a personalized approach in medicine and healthcare. The book reflects on personalized medicine and complex diseases, the relationship between personalized medicine and the new bio-technologies, personalized medicine and personalized nutrition, and on some ethical, political, economic, and social implications of personalized medicine. This volume is of interest to researchers from several disciplines including philosophy, bio-medicine, and the social sciences.
Chapter 16, ¿The Impact of Fantasy¿ is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.