Bioethics in Personalized Medicine and Precision Medicine
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Disease Biomarker".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2026 | Viewed by 3
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nursing ethics; medical ethics; health resources allocation
Interests: nursing ethics and law; vulnerable populations (people with disabilities, immigrants/refugees, the elderly, etc.); health education
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Personalized medicine (PM) aims to provide tailor-made prevention and treatment strategies for defined groups of individuals, with key areas including oncology, cardiology, rare diseases, infectious diseases, and pharmacogenomics. Various precision interventions are already used in health care systems around the globe and research initiatives leave promises for the rapid expansion of PM in the near-future. This growing interest has prompted considerations of several bioethical issues. Questions of justice arise when the benefits of these novel interventions are not accessible to all, whereas allocating more resources to individualistic approaches raises serious concerns from a population health perspective. There is also a risk that PM could exacerbate existing health disparities, and insurance companies or employers might discriminate based on genetic predispositions. The issues of privacy, confidentiality, transparency, and informed consent must be carefully revised to adapt to the new realities that PM entails; indeed, the whole therapeutic relationship is affected. In addition, the interpretation of genetic data and its application to treatment decisions can be complex and uncertain, threatening patient safety.
This Special Issue invites interdisciplinary contributions that explore these and other bioethical challenges emerging from personalized and precision medicine advances. We welcome discussion papers, reviews, and original research articles highlighting the ethical, legal, and social implications of recent PM advances. The aim is to foster an international dialogue among ethicists, clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and patient communities to ensure that the future of personalized and precision medicine is guided by robust ethical principles.
Dr. Michael Igoumenidis
Dr. Venetia Sofia Velonaki
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioethics
- equity
- genetic discrimination
- health disparities
- individualized care
- predictive analytics
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