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Personalised Medicine: The Way of the Future?

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3. If evidence for PM is uneven, why<br />

are such large claims being made?<br />

• In our society, where individualism and<br />

choice are highly valued, ‘personalised’ is<br />

automatically assumed to be good<br />

• Perhaps <strong>the</strong> favourable term is being used to<br />

prejudge <strong>the</strong> debate about whe<strong>the</strong>r we<br />

should put our available resources into Me or<br />

We <strong>Medicine</strong>?<br />

• Except perhaps in pharmacogenetics, science<br />

alone doesn’t explain rise <strong>of</strong> Me <strong>Medicine</strong>

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