Yechiel Michael Barilan was born and educated in Israel. He is an expert in Internal Medicine and js most recently a senior physician in the Covid-19 Dept. and Emergency Dept. Tel Aviv Medical Centre. He is a full professor in the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, specializing in ethics and social history of medicine. He is also a member of national and international ethics committees and is an author of over a hundred peer reviewed academic publications.

Margherita Brusa earned a PhD in bioethics from the University Complutense of Madrid, and a second PhD in paediatric healthcare planning from the University of Padua. She has served in ethics committees in Spain, USA, and Italy, and led the creation of the first ethics committee in the Palestinian Authority. The focus of her research is bioethics and children.

Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli physician and scientist working currently at the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. He received his MD (1972) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and PhD (1982) from the Technion, where along with Professor Avram Hershko and in collaboration with Professor Irwin Rose (Philadelphia, USA) he discovered the Ubiquitin Proteolytic System, a discovery which awarded them numerous prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004). He is a member of many learned bodies, including the National Academies of Sciences and Medicine of the USA (Foreign Associate), and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican.

• 1.: Yechiel Michael Barilan and Margherita Brusa: Chapter 1: Precision and Persons in Medicine: An Introduction


• 2.: Diego Gracia Guillen: The historical background of Personalized Medicine


• 3,: Leroy Hood, Nathan D. Price, and Simon J. Evans: What 21st Century Medicine Should Be-History, Vision, Implementation and Opportunities


• 4.: Giovanni Boniolo: The Problematic Side of Precision Medicine: A Short Voyage through Some Questions


• 5.: Henrik Vogt: The precision paradox - How personalized medicine increases uncertainty


• 6.: Farhat Moazam: Genomics and Precision Medicine: Through a Different Prism


• 7.: Yechiel Michael Barilan: Personalization, Individuation and the Ethos of Precision Medicine


• 8.: Margherita Brusa and Donna Dickenson: Personalized Medicine and Genetic Newborn Screening


• 9.: Christopher P. Austin: The Revolution of Personalized Medicine is Already Upon Us in Rare Diseases


• 10.: Joseph J. Fins: Personalized Medicine and Disorders of Consciousness: An Alternate Convergence of Knowledge towards a New Clinical Nosology


• 11.: Marianne J. Legato: Gender and Personalized Medicine: Methodological and Ethical Pitfalls


• 12.: Shlomo Cohen: Potential Challenges to Doctor-Patient Trust Posed by Personalized Medicine


• 13.: James Wilson: When does precision matter? Personalised medicine from the perspective of public health


• 14.: Dianne Nicol: CRISPR - A Challenge for National and International Regulation


• 15.: Barbara Prainsack: The Advent of Automated Medicine? The values and meanings of precision


• 16.: Jenny Reardon: Thoughtful Genomics


• 17.: Mehrunisha Suleman: Islamic Sunni perspectives on the ethics of precision medicine


• 18.: Yehoshua Weisinger and Yechiel Michael Barilan: Genetics, genetic profiles and Jewish law


• 19.: Roger Perlmutter: Pharmaceutical Contributions to Personalized Medicine