Personalized medicine : empowered patients in the 21st century? / Barbara Prainsack.
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479856909 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.18574/nyu/9781479814879.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 28, 2018) |