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Author Dickenson, Donna.

Title Me medicine vs. we medicine : reclaiming biotechnology for the common good / Donna Dickenson.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 278 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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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Subject Medicine, Preventive -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medicine, Preventive -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medicine, Preventive.
Patient-centered health care -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Patient-centered health care.
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Precision Medicine -- ethics.
Biotechnology -- ethics.
Public Health Practice -- ethics.
Social Justice.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
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 book)
0231534418 (electronic book)
9780231159746
0231159749