Personalised Cancer Medicine - Future Crafting in the Genomic Era

Bringing the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners to the fore, this book explores how individual and collective futures are crafted through their work and care. The authors chart the different kinds of care and work involved in efforts to personalise cancer medicine, as well as the ways in which benefits and opportunities are unevenly realised and distributed.

List of contents

Introduction: Exploring personalised cancer medicine
1 Personalising cancer treatment and diagnosis through genomic medicine
2 Genomic techniques in standard care: Gene expression profiling in early stage breast cancer
3 Molecular profiling for advanced gynaecological cancer: prolonging foreshortened futures
4 Optimising personalisation: Adaptive trials for intractable cancers
5 Genomics at Scale: Participation to build the bioeconomy
6 Going Private: Digital culture and personalised medicine
7 At the limits of participation
Conclusion: Future crafting

Bibliography
Index

About the author

Anne Kerr is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow

Choon Key Chekar is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Lancaster

Emily Ross is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh

Julia Swallow is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh

Sarah Cunningham-Burley is Professor of Medical and Family Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Product details

• Authors: Tineke Broer, Choon Key Chekar, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Cunningham-Burley Sarah, Anne Kerr, Anne Broer Kerr, Anne Chekar Kerr, Kerr Anne, Emily Ross, Ross Emily, Julia Swallow
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781526141026
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4102-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Inscriptions
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Genetics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Medical Genetics, Medical Sociology