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This book offers comprehensive coverage of the various aspects of personalized medicine as an original approach to classifying, understanding, treating and preventing disease based on individual biological differences. In the introductory section, it defines personalized medicine as a way toward new medical practices and addresses the question: What can personalized medicine offer citizens, medical professionals, reimbursement bodies and stakeholders? Subsequent chapters discuss the technological aspects of personalized medicine: data collection, comprehensive integration and handling of data, together with key enabling factors in developing the requisite technological support for personalized medicine. Lastly, the book explores the main issues shaping the implementation and development of personalized medicine - education, stakeholder participation, infrastructure, a new approach to the classification of disease and medical tests, regulatory frameworks, and new reimbursement models- together with ethical, legal and social issues. Ultimately, the book calls for interdisciplinarity and a radical change in the way we approach the health and wellbeing of individuals.
Target groups are medical doctors and researchers in the field of biomedicine, as well as experts from the social sciences dealing with legal, economic and social aspects of health system issues in general. Though the book will primarily benefit these groups of professional experts, its content will also appeal to a far wider readership, as it deals with a paradigm shift in one of society's main pillars - the health system.
List of contents
Personalized Medicine - The Path to New Medicine by Kresimir Pavelic, Mirela Sedic and Sandra Kraljevic Pavelic.- Legal Aspects of Personalized Medicine by Ulrich Becker.- Challenges of Personalized Medicine - Socio-legal Disputes and Possible Solutions by Nada Bodiroga-Vukobrat and Hana Horak.- Embryonic Stem Cell Patents and Personalized Medicine in the European Union by Jasmina Mutabzija.- Personalised Medicine and Public Health by Vladimir Micovic, Iva Sorta Bilajac and ulija Malatestinic.- Personalized Medicine and Technology Transfer by Petra Karanikic.- Economic Evaluations of Personalized Health Technologies - An Overview of Emerging Issues by Ana Bobinac and Maja Vehovec.- Computational Methods for Integration of Biological Data by Vladimir Gligorijevic and Natasa Przulj.- The Role of Proteomics in Personalized Medicine by Djuro Josic and Uros Andjelkovic.- The Role of Radiology in Personalized Medicine by Damir Miletic, Petra Valkovic Zujic and Ronald Antulov.- Implantation of Toric Intraocular Lenses - Personalized Surgery on the Lens by Iva Dekaris, Nikica Gabric, Ante Barisic and Alma Biscevic.- Personalized Medicine of Central Nervous System Diseases and Disorders - Looking Toward the Future by Miranda Mladinic Pejatovic and Srdjan Anzic.- Personalized Medicine in Gastroenterology by Davor Stimac and Neven Franjic.- Personalized Medicine in Clinical Pharmacology by Dinko Vitezic, Nada Bozina, Jasenka Mrsic Pelcic, Viktorija Erdeljic Turk and Igor Francetic.
Summary
This book offers comprehensive coverage of the various aspects of personalized medicine as an original approach to classifying, understanding, treating and preventing disease based on individual biological differences. In the introductory section, it defines personalized medicine as a way toward new medical practices and addresses the question: What can personalized medicine offer citizens, medical professionals, reimbursement bodies and stakeholders? Subsequent chapters discuss the technological aspects of personalized medicine: data collection, comprehensive integration and handling of data, together with key enabling factors in developing the requisite technological support for personalized medicine. Lastly, the book explores the main issues shaping the implementation and development of personalized medicine – education, stakeholder participation, infrastructure, a new approach to the classification of disease and medical tests, regulatory frameworks, and new reimbursement models– together with ethical, legal and social issues. Ultimately, the book calls for interdisciplinarity and a radical change in the way we approach the health and wellbeing of individuals.
Target groups are medical doctors and researchers in the field of biomedicine, as well as experts from the social sciences dealing with legal, economic and social aspects of health system issues in general. Though the book will primarily benefit these groups of professional experts, its content will also appeal to a far wider readership, as it deals with a paradigm shift in one of society’s main pillars – the health system.
