The thesis deals with the current and prospective status of persons who are not (yet) ill but have a special risk of disease or a (genetic) disposition in the German statutory health insurance under special consideration of the implications of biomarker-based prediction and early diagnosis. Among other things, it is clarified whether and under what conditions a risk of disease entitles medical treatment, and the consequences of equating risk and illness are examined. Also, a proposal is made, how the law can overcome the outdated dichotomy between health and illness and how the medical needs of the "healthy ill" can be taken into account.

This book is included in DOAB.