Personalised Cancer Medicine: Future Crafting in the Genomic Era (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526141026)

What does it mean to personalise cancer medicine? Drawing on an ethnographic study with cancer patients, carers and practitioners in the UK, this book traces their efforts to access and interpret novel genomic tests, information and treatments as they craft personal and collective futures. Exploring multiple experiences of new diagnostic tests, research programmes and trials, advocacy and experimental therapies, 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.

Comparing these experiences with policy and professional accounts of the 'big' future of personalised healthcare, the authors show how hope and care are multi-faceted, contingent and, at times, frustrated in the everyday complexities of living and working with cancer.

This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Author: Anne Kerr, Choon Key Chekar, Emily Ross
ISBN-10: 1526141027
ISBN-13: 9781526141026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2021
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2021