The politics of personalised medicine pharmacogenetics in the clinic
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [etc.] :
Cambridge University Press
2004.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in society and the life sciences.
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991009946649708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
