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Personalized medicine raises several important ethical concerns. One major issue is privacy, as this approach relies heavily on genetic and health data, which is extremely sensitive. If such information is misused or leaked, it could lead to discrimination by employers or insurance companies. Another key concern is inequality. Personalized treatments are often expensive and may [...]
To be honest, personalized medicine and genetic engineering are different. For example, a doctor provides us treatment for our health when we face any crisis. At the time we need a doctor and medicine, if I talk about engineering, I would like to discuss it as something totally different. Engineering encompasses many fields, like genetics, [...]
This is a really tough question for me because I'm not a specialist in the medical field, but I can suppose that ethical considerations around the development of personalized medicine mostly involve the price, cost, and affordability of that type of medicine. Not everyone can afford this type of medicine due to its personalized nature [...]
I don't have that much knowledge on this subject, but if I can say to be ethical, you should use genetic engineering only if you have a profile from an institution like the World Health Organization. These techniques should be allowed only in the case of diseases. This will reduce the misuse of this tool. [...]
I think personalized medicine is one of the most innovative and beneficial developments in the medical domain in general. But it can be easily misused by companies, just like what's happening right now with personalized ads and the stealing of data, personalized data to optimize the ads transferred to the customer. For example, Facebook and [...]
From my perspective, there can be many challenges with personalized medicine and genetic engineering. To start my point, when there are DNA and genetic changes, they can create a new generation that may have health problems or mutations. Therefore, I believe genetic engineering and personalized medicine can harmfully affect our next generation or the individuals [...]