Asks whether personalised medicine is superior to 'one-size-fits-all' treatment. Does it elevate individual choice above the common good?
1. Introduction to Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good Donna Dickenson, Britta van Beers and Sigrid Sterckx; 2. Personalised medicine and the politics of human nuclear genome transfer Françoise Baylis and Alana Cattapan; 3. Stem cell derived gametes and uterus transplants: hurray for the end of third party reproduction! Or not? Heidi Mertes; 4. Personalising future health risk through 'biological insurance': proliferation of private umbilical cord blood banking in India Jyotsna Gupta; 5. Combating the trade in organs: why we should preserve the communal nature of organ transplantation Kristof Van Assche; 6. When there is no cure: challenges for collective approaches to Alzheimer's disease Robin Pierce; 7. Lost and found: relocating the individual in the age of intensified data sourcing in European healthcare Klaus Hoeyer; 8. Presuming the promotion of the common good by large-scale health research: the cases of care.data 2.0 and the 100,000 Genomes Project in the UK Sigrid Sterckx, Sandi Dheensa and Julian Cockbain; 9. My genome, my right Stuart Hogarth, Julian Cockbain and Sigrid Sterckx; 10. 'The best me I can possibly be': legal subjectivity, self-authorship and wrongful life actions in an age of 'genomic torts' Britta van Beers; 11. I run, you run, we run: a philosophical approach to health and fitness apps Marli Huijer and Christian Detweiler; 12. The molecularised me: psychoanalysing personalised medicine and self-tracking Hub Zwart.