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A 10 page paper discussing the ethical implications of development of personalized medicine at PAI, a fictional pharmaceutical company. Using Kant and Mill, the recommendation for PAI is to create alliances with teaching hospitals that obtain research releases from every patient admitted. PAI will be able to secure the unidentified patient data it needs to develop its personalized medicine program without risking legal entanglements and without violating any individual's privacy. The outcome has the potential of being greatly beneficial not only for the nation, but also for the entire world. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShlthCrPersMed.rtf
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Pharmaceuticals American Inc. (PAI) is a fictional pharmaceutical company involved in the creation of "designer drugs" intended for extremely narrow and highly targeted physiological effect. Its products are personalized
in that they are altered for use with specific individuals and are designed to act only on the site they are intended to effect. As example, an individuals arthritis
medication would be designed to bind only with specific molecules so that it produces an effect that best suits the individuals specific problems. The same general base formulation would
be altered further for another patient with different biochemical needs. This is a future goal of personalized medicine, however. Currently, technology is
not such that pharmaceutical companies can so closely attack problematic areas. Rather, personalized medicine as it currently exists refers to achieving "optimal medical outcomes by helping physicians and patients
choose the disease management approaches likely to work best in the context of a patients genetic and environmental profile" (Personalized Medicine 101, n.d.). The science underlying personalized medicine is
one thing; the ethics associated with it is another. The purpose here is to provide a view of the ethical issues associated with personalized medicine. Immediate Considerations
Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that personalized treatment?
An additional question should be whether such targeted health care is a right or a privilege. If it is a right, then societal norms dictate
that it be freely available to all who request it. If it is a privilege, then it likely will be available only to those who personally can afford it.
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