Adam Hedgecoe

The Politics of Personalised Medicine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book applies a social science perspective to an examination of issues that arise in clinical practice as a result of drug development linked to genetic testing. These include the social context within which new drugs undergo trials and the related attitudes and expectations of clinicians and patients. Two case studies illustrate the arguments--one on aspects of Alzheimer's disease, and the other on the drug Herceptin which is used in the treatment of breast cancer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 323g
• ISBN-13: 9780521602655
• ISBN-10: 0521602653
• Artikelnr.: 22402382

Autorenporträt

Adam Hedgecoe is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University

Inhaltsangabe

1. Personalised medicine - a revolution in health care
2. Pharmacogenetics, expectation and promissory science
3. Genetics, moral risk and professional resistance
4. 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.