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Ethics at the Intersection of Pharmacoethnicity
Author(s) -
FitzGerald KT
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1038/clpt.2008.126
Subject(s) - disease , psychological intervention , intersection (aeronautics) , etiology , health care , genomics , medicine , engineering ethics , biology , genetics , genome , political science , psychiatry , geography , pathology , engineering , law , gene , cartography
There is much hope for progress in twenty‐first–century health care. Scientific and technological advances, particularly in the areas of genetics and genomics, are significant reasons for this hope. Increased understanding of the genetic etiologies of disease and illness may provide new opportunities for interventions that promise better treatment for and prevention of disease. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2008); 84 , 3, 424–426 doi: 10.1038/clpt.2008.126