Boost(erism) for Personalized Medicine

April 5, 2011

While the prospects of personalized medicine to help clinicians and patients better understand, manage, and treat illness as they affect individuals is highly commendable, this movement has recently been met by what I see as a troubling levels of boosterism. This was evident at the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, held at Duke University in March. (Bioethics Forum)