Tutton, Richard.
Genomics and the Reimagining of Personalized
Medicine : учебное пособие / Richard Tutton. - New York and London
: Routledge Tayylor& Francis Group, 2020. - 203, [1] p. -
ISBN 978-1-4727-2256-9 : Б. ц.
Рубрики: Медицина
Кл.слова (ненормированные):
GENOMICS,
PERSONALIZED, MEDICINE
Аннотация: Drawing on insights from work in medical history
and sociology, this book analyzes changing meanings of personalized
medicine over time, from the rise of biomedicine in the twentieth
century, to the emergence of pharmacogenomics and personal genomics
in the 1990s and 2000s. In the past when doctors championed
personalization they did so to emphasize that patients had unique
biographies and social experiences in the name of caring for their
patients as individuals. However, since the middle of the twentieth
century, geneticists have successfully promoted the belief that
genes are implicated in why some people develop diseases and why
some have adverse reactions to drugs when others do not. In doing
so, they claim to offer a new way of personalizing the prediction,
prevention and treatment of disease. As this book shows, the
genomic reimagining of personalized medicine centres on new forms
of capitalization and consumption of genetic information. While
genomics promises the ultimate individualization of medicine, the
author argues that personalized medicine exists in the imaginative
gap between the problems and limits of current scientific practices
and future prospects to individualize medical interventions. A
rigorous, critical examination of the promises of genomics to
transform the economics and delivery of medicine, Genomics and the
Reimagining of Personalized Medicine examines the consequences of
the shift towards personalization for the way we think about and
act on health and disease in society. As such, it will be of
interest to scholars and students of the sociology of medicine and
health, science and technology studies, and health policy.
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