Person Centered Care and Personalized Medicine: Irreconcilable Opposites or Potential Companions?

El-Alti, Leila; Sandman, Lars; Munthe, Christian

Abstract

In contrast to standardized guidelines, personalized medicine and person centered care are two notions that have recently developed and are aspiring for more individualized health care for each single patient. While having a similar drive toward individualized care, their sources are markedly different. While personalized medicine stems from a biomedical framework, person centered care originates from a caring perspective, and a wish for a more holistic view of patients. It is unclear to what extent these two concepts can be combined or if they conflict at fundamental or pragmatic levels. This paper reviews existing literature in both medicine and related philosophy to analyze closer the meaning of the two notions, and to explore the extent to which they overlap or oppose each other, in theory or in practice, in particular regarding ethical assumptions and their respective practical implications.

Citation

El-Alti, L., Sandman, L., & Munthe, C. (2019). Person Centered Care and Personalized Medicine: Irreconcilable Opposites or Potential Companions?. Health Care Analysis, 27(1), 45-59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-017-0347-5

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Sep 21, 2017
• Publication Date: 2019-03
• Deposit Date: Nov 4, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 7, 2022
• Journal: Health Care Analysis
• Print ISSN: 1065-3058
• Electronic ISSN: 1573-3394
• Publisher: Springer
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 45-59
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-017-0347-5
• Keywords: Personalized medicine, Person centered care, Healthcare ethics, Concept analysis
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2948453