{"product_id":"personalized-medicine-barbara-prainsack-9781479814879","title":"Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a reality\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMedicine 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePersonalized Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile it is often the case that participatory practices in medicine are celebrated as instances of patient empowerment or, alternatively, are dismissed as cases of patient exploitation, Barbara Prainsack challenges these views to illustrate how personalized medicine can give rise to a technology-focused individualism, yet also present new opportunities to strengthen solidarity. Facing the future, this book reveals how medicine informed by digital, quantified, and computable information is already changing the personalization movement, providing a contemporary twist on how medical symptoms or ailments are shared and discussed in society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing together empirical work and critical scholarship from medicine, public health, data governance, bioethics, and digital sociology, \u003ci\u003ePersonalized Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the challenges of personalization driven by patient work and data. This compelling volume proposes an understanding that uses novel technological practices to foreground the needs and interests of patients, instead of being ruled by them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Prainsack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479814873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479814879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/19\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Barbara Prainsack","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48113578148095,"sku":"9781479814879","price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c181eaed-5d11-4ae7-a885-614e7933535f.jpg?v=1769615932","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/personalized-medicine-barbara-prainsack-9781479814879","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}