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1 online resource (xi, 278 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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A reality check for personalized medicine -- "Your genetic information should be controlled by you" : personalized genetic testing -- Pharmacogenetics : one patient, one drug? -- "Your birth day gift" : banking cord blood -- Enhancement technologies : feeling more like myself -- "The ancient, useless, dangerous, and filthy rite of vaccination" : public health, public enemy? -- Reclaiming biomedicine for the common good. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
Personalized healthcare?or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls?Me Medicine"?is radically transforming our longstanding,?one-size-fits-all" model. Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, pharmacogenetics in cancer care, private umbilical cord blood banking, and neurocognitive enhancement claim to cater to an individual's specific biological character. In some cases, these technologies have shown powerful potential, yet in others, they have produced negligible or even negative results. Whatever is behind the rise of Me Medicine, it isn't just science. So w. |
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Medicine, Preventive -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Patient-centered health care -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Precision Medicine -- ethics.
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Biotechnology -- ethics.
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Public Health Practice -- ethics.
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Social Justice.
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MEDICAL -- Ethics.
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SCIENCE -- Applied Sciences.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Me medicine versus we medicine |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Dickenson, Donna. Me medicine vs. we medicine. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013 9780231159746 (DLC) 2012037582 (OCoLC)810409773 |
| ISBN |
9780231534413 (electronic bk.) |
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0231534418 (electronic bk.) |
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