Lucivero Federica, Prainsack Barbara
Social Science Health and Medicine Department, King's College London, United Kingdom.
Appl Transl Genom. 2015 Feb 7;4:44-9. doi: 10.1016/j.atg.2015.02.001. eCollection 2015 Mar.
Consumer genomics and mobile health provide health-related information to individuals and offer advice for lifestyle change. These 'technologies for healthy lifestyle' occupy an ambiguous space between the highly regulated medical domain and the less regulated consumer market. We argue that this ambiguity challenges implicit distinctions between what is medical and what is related to personal lifestyle choices within current regulatory systems. In this article, we discuss how consumer genomics and mobile health devices give rise to new ways of creating (and making sense of) health-related knowledge. We also address some of the implications of harnessing, rather than denying, the hybridity of mobile health devices, being situated between medical devices and consumer products, between health and lifestyle.
消费者基因组学和移动健康为个人提供与健康相关的信息，并为生活方式的改变提供建议。这些“健康生活方式技术”在监管严格的医疗领域和监管较松的消费市场之间占据着一个模糊地带。我们认为，这种模糊性挑战了当前监管体系中医疗与个人生活方式选择之间的隐含区分。在本文中，我们讨论了消费者基因组学和移动健康设备如何催生了创造（并理解）与健康相关知识的新方式。我们还探讨了利用而非否认移动健康设备的混合性所带来的一些影响，这些设备介于医疗设备和消费产品之间，介于健康和生活方式之间。
