ABSTRACT
Pharmacogenomics has been described as one of the most promising research areas to stem from the genetic revolution. Proponents proclaim it has the potential to transform health care and pharmaceutical development, leading the way toward a new era of personalized medicine whereby the right amount of the right kind of drug would be provided to the right patient. Coupled with discipline attractive picture, the popular expression “personalized medicine” is often employed as a synonym of pharmacogenomics, conferring a stronger and more positive appeal to policy makers and the general population alike. Viewed as a practical and pluralistic approach to ethics that bridges various ethical, theological, and social approaches toward moral decision making, principlism operates by specifying how the principles are to be used in specific situations and then balancing the principles with other competing moral principles. Ethics is a broad academic discipline interested in moral options in particular domains of inquiry.
