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

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dickenson, Donna (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.