Personalised medicine a critical approach to data-driven medicine / Michael Morrison, Saheli Datta Burton ; with Elisa Lievevrouw and Elisabetta Biasin.
| Author/creator | Morrison, Michael |
| Other author | Burton, Saheli Datta |
| Other author | Lievevrouw, Elisa |
| Other author | Biasin, Elisabetta |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2027. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Personalized medicine |
| Series | Critical approaches to health |
| Contents | Introduction: the origins and meaning of personalised medicine -- The perils and promise of data-driven medicine -- Infrastructures and infrastructur-ing -- The publics of personalised medicine -- Personalisation in treatment, therapies, and care -- Health data governance in personalised medicine -- The possible futures of personalised medicine. |
| Abstract | "This book sets out a critical sociological approach to 'personalised medicine' (PM), highlighting its limitations and flaws, but also emphasising its hopeful potentialities for a better medicine in the future. Bringing together perspectives from science and technology studies, medical sociology, law and bioethics, the book traces personalised medicine from its historical roots in disease classification and genomics to its data-driven present of digital infrastructures, algorithmic prediction, and precision therapeutics. Across seven chapters, it explores how measurement, classification, and datafication shape medical knowledge; how infrastructures and platforms distribute benefits and risks; how publics are imagined as patients, consumers, and citizens; and how privacy, access, and equity are negotiated in global health systems. The book concludes by outlining possible futures grounded in solidarity, patient-centered care, and democratic innovation-offering practical ways to shift personalised medicine from a privilege for the few to a shared public good. Written for scholars and practitioners in science and technology studies, sociology of medicine, health policy, and bioethics, as well as for clinicians and policymakers, this book will engage readers seeking to understand-and reshape-the social futures of data-intensive healthcare. It will also be useful for policy makers debating the implementation of different personalised medicine projects in local or national healthcare systems"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2026001468 |
| ISBN | 9781032246314 hardback |
| ISBN | 9781032246307 paperback |
| ISBN | ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |