ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE IN DERMATOLOGY

As personalized medicine is based on a genetic typing of patients, its development actualizes the bioethical problems of genetic technologies, caused by the special nature of genetic information. Population survey and interviews with the patients dermatological practice evidences of high significance for them confidentiality of genetic information, only a tenth of the population is indifferent to the principle of confidentiality. The special nature of genetic information produces another ethical dilemma: the conflict the principle of respect for autonomy and the principle of «do no harm». You want to develop the procedure of ethical review cases when it is necessary to violate the privacy of a patient without his consent to the notification of his family members are potentially exposed to the risk of disease.

dermatovenerology, personalized medicine, genetic testing, confidentiality principle, the principle of «do no harm», a sociological survey