Donna Dickenson

Me Medicine vs. We Medicine

Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An evidence-based critique of personalised medicine and its exalted claims to better health for all.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780231159746
• ISBN-10: 0231159749
• Artikelnr.: 36719819

Autorenporträt

Donna Dickenson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. A Reality Check for Personalized Medicine
2. "Your Genetic Information Should Be Controlled by You": Personalized
Genetic Testing
3. Pharmacogenetics: One Patient
4. "Your Birth Day Gift": Banking Cord Blood
5. Enhancement Technologies: Feeling More Like Myself
6. "The Ancient, Useless, Dangerous, and Filthy Rite of Vaccination":
Public Health
7. Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good
Notes
Bibliography
Index