Tyranny of the gene : personalized medicine and its threat to public health
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
572.86/TABERY,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780525658207, 0525658203 :, 0525658203, 9780525658207
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A Tale of Two Revolutions -- The End of a Partnership -- Industry Relationships -- From Artificial Nose to Genomics Juggernaut -- The Politics of the Personal -- Genomics Finds Its Hammer -- Not Personal, Not Precise -- Disparity in the Genome -- The "Gleevec Scenario"
A revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed genomics at the center of American medicine and a clear-eyed look at the unfulfilled promise of "personalized medicine."--