Lemoine, Maël (2017) Neither from words, nor from visions: understanding p-medicine from innovative treatments. Lato Sensu, revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences, 4 (2). pp. 12-23. ISSN 2295-8029
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Abstract
Despite its vagueness Personalized, Precision, P4, P5, individualized, stratified medicine—or p-medicine in short—has become an increasingly popular term in biomedical literature. Philosophers have attempted to analyze what these various terms involve and have discussed consequences for medical practices. In this article, I argue that an important question remains unaddressed: what has made this project of p-medicine convincing to so many? My argument is that without real achievements, it would never have been. I also make the case that these achievements stem from the domain of monoclonal antibodies (mab), a new type of drug that justifies talks of personalized, precise, stratified, etc., medicine. In conclusion, while it may be possible to label any projection in the future of medicine as ‘p-medicine’, it is impossible to overlook mab-medicine as the spearhead.
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| Keywords: | personalized medicine; precision medicine | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Philosophers of Science |
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| Depositing User: | Lato Sensu | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 02 Apr 2018 17:20 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2018 17:20 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 14513 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Lato Sensu, revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences | ||||||
| Publisher: | Société de philosophie des sciences | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://sites.uclouvain.be/latosensu/index.php/lat... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | /10.20416/lsrsps.v4i2.793 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Philosophers of Science |
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| Date: | 2017 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 12-23 | ||||||
| Volume: | 4 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2295-8029 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14513 |
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