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9 - ‘P4 Medicine’ and the Purview of Health Law: The Patient or the Public?

from Part III - Applications: From Personalised Medicine and Pricing to Political Micro-Targeting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2021

By
Keith Syrett
Edited by
Uta Kohl  and
Jacob Eisler
Uta Kohl
Affiliation:
Southampton Law School
Jacob Eisler
Affiliation:
Southampton Law School
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The development of data-driven personalisation in medicine, as exemplified by the ‘P4’ approach formulated by Leroy Hood and colleagues, may be viewed as consistent with a particular understanding of law’s role in respect of health, and with the dominant ethical principle of autonomy which underpins this. This chapter maps the direction of travel of health law in the UK in recent times against the evolution of personalised medicine. It notes, however, that this offers merely a partial account of the function of law in this context, as well as of the reach of this sub-discipline as a scholarly endeavour.

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Health lawautonomyresponsibilisationepistemologypublic health law
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Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law , pp. 159 - 173
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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