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Applying Existing Ethical Principles to Personal Medicine
Cuticchia, A. Jamie
Cuticchia, A. Jamie
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While areas such as gene therapy have fallen short of its initial promises as a byproduct of the Human Genome Project, personal medicine (which will be used interchangeably with pharmacogenomics) is more promising. The development of hundreds of thousands of biomarkers along with the technologies to rapidly and inexpensively perform genetic screening has laid the foundation for personal medicine. Just as the Human Genome Project itself has been burdened with ethical implications, so has personal medicine. However, society has been evolving practices regarding genetic and clinical information which are poised for their application to personal medicine. In this article, three topics with ethical implications: (1) privacy concerns, (2) economic considerations, and (3) potential malpractice litigation, are discussed along with the application of existing ethical principles to each.
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2009
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