The politics of personalised medicine pharmacogenetics in the clinic

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hedgecoe, Adam (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press 2004.
Colección:Cambridge studies in society and the life sciences.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Personalised medicine - a revolution in health care. 2. Pharmacogenetics, expectation and promissory science. 3. Genetics, moral risk and professional resistance4. Clinical resistance to Alzheimer's pharmacogenetics. 5. Research, industry and pharmacogenetic literacy. 6. Engineering the clinic - getting personalised medicine into practice. 7. The fourth hurdle - cost effectiveness and the funding of pharmacogenetics. 8. Disappointment and disclosure in the pharmacogenetic clinic. 9. The personalised is political.