Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Part 1: New Visions of Genetics and Genomics as Integrative Medicine 2. Genomic Medicine in 2025-2030
Part 2: Risk Empowerment 3. Genomic Risk Perception and Implications for Patient Outcomes from Genetic Counselling 4. Genomic and Biological Risk Profiling
Part 3: Rethinking Professional Responsibility 5. On Patients’ Difficulties in Understanding Medical Risks and the Aims of Clinical Risk Communication 6. Ethical Consideration about Health Risk Communication and Professional Responsibility 7. Uncertainty and Risk Perception in the Context of Personalized Medicine
Part 4: Social and Policy Implications 8. Direct to Consumer Personal Genomic Testing and Trust 9. The Application of New Technologies to Improve Literacy among the General Public and to Promote Informed Decisions in Genomics 10. Algorithms as Emerging Policy Tools in Medicine 11. Epilogue