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Personalized Medicine : Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?.

Medicine has been personal long before the concept of 'personalized medicine' became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual characteristics of their patients when diagnosing, and treating them. Patients have cared for themselves and for each other...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Prainsack, Barbara
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : NYU Press, 2017.
Collection:Biopolitics--the bio-environment.
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Résumé:Medicine has been personal long before the concept of 'personalized medicine' became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual characteristics of their patients when diagnosing, and treating them. Patients have cared for themselves and for each other, contributed to medical research, and advocated for new treatments. Given this history, why has the notion of personalized medicine gained so much traction at the beginning of the new millennium? 'Personalized Medicine' investigates the recent movement for patients' involvement in how they are treated, diagnosed, and medicated; a movement that accompanies the increasingly popular idea that people should be proactive, well-informed participants in their own healthcare.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (235 pages)
ISBN:9781479838943
1479838942