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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 d...
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05 January 2021

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.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
Price: £30.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date:
05 January 2021
ISBN: 9781526141026
Format: Hardback
Introduction: Exploring personalised cancer medicine1 Personalising cancer treatment and diagnosis through genomic medicine2 Genomic techniques in standard care: Gene expression profiling in early stage breast cancer3 Molecular profiling for advanced gynaecological cancer: prolonging foreshortened futures4 Optimising personalisation: Adaptive trials for intractable cancers5 Genomics at Scale: Participation to build the bioeconomy6 Going Private: Digital culture and personalised medicine7 At the limits of participationConclusion: Future craftingBibliographyIndex