TY - JOUR
AU1 - Simonato, Lorenzo
AB - Theor Med Bioeth (2015) 36:243–245 DOI 10.1007/s11017-014-9311-7 Niklas Juth, Christian Munthe: The ethics of screening in healthcare and medicine: serving society or serving the patient? Springer, Dordrecht, 2012, 180 pp, $159 (hardcover), ISBN Lorenzo Simonato Published online: 18 October 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 The hypothesis that administering a diagnostic test to an asymptomatic population can detect a relevant proportion of prevalent cases in an early phase and therefore improve the chances of curing disease dates back to the sixties and has been tested and applied mainly to neoplastic diseases. Meanwhile, the practice of screening has benefitted from the progress of diagnostic technology and from the development, particularly in Europe, of efficient national health systems. Half a century later, two Swedish researchers, Niklas Juth and Christian Munthe, undertake the task of reexamining various aspects of screening practices in light of the ethical justification of this secondary prevention tool. Their analysis encom- passes all public health actions in which the personal benefit is contrasted with collective health considerations. Screening generates such doubts and conflicts, which are inherently ethical. The publication could be split in two parts. The first is a long section, mainly informative of the different, complex aspects 
TI - Niklas Juth, Christian Munthe: The ethics of screening in healthcare and medicine: serving society or serving the patient?
JF - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
DO - 10.1007/s11017-014-9311-7
DA - 2014-10-18
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/niklas-juth-christian-munthe-the-ethics-of-screening-in-healthcare-and-5LvVnRhhHB
SP - 243
EP - 245
VL - 36
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -