The aim of pharmacogenetics is to identify, through the use of genetic information, who will be likely to benefit and who harmed from taking a drug, so that prescribing the product to the latter group can be avoided. This is a move away from the one-size-fits-all approach to a more targeted type of therapy. The potential effects of pharmacogenetics, however, stretch wider than the clinic, even to the conduct of clinical trials. Ethical issues include both implementation and the expectations to w

First Author: Singer, Peter; Callahan, Dan; Chadwick, Ruth F.
Attributed to:  Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics funded by ESRC

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Edition: 2nd Revised edition

Book Title: Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (2011)

Page Reference: 438-442

ISBN: 9780123736321