Between hype and hope: What is really at stake with personalized medicine?

摘要: Over the last decade, personalized medicine has become a buzz word, which covers broad spectrum of meanings and generates many different opinions. The purpose this article is to achieve better understanding reasons why gives rise such conflicting We show that major issue gap existing between its claims reality. then present analyze possible for gap. propose an hypothesis inspired by Windelband’s distinction nomothetic idiographic methodology. argue fuzzy situation results from mix methodological procedures. Hence we suggest current quandary about cannot be solved without getting involved in discussion complex epistemological status medicine. To conclude, Gadamer’s view as dialogical process can fruitfully used reveals personalization not theoretical task, but practical one, takes place within clinical encounter.