Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health (Tabery James)(Pevná vazba)

A revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed the unfulfilled promise of "personalized medicine" at the center of American medicine The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized or precision medicine--the tailoring of health care to our genomes--have promised to usher in a new era of miracle cures. Advocates of this gene-guided health-care practice foresee a future where skyrocketing costs can be curbed by customization and unjust disparities are vanquished by biomedical breakthroughs. Progress, however, has come slowly, and with a price too high for the average citizen. In Tyranny of the Gene, James Tabery exposes the origin story of personalized medicine in the hands of pharmaceutical executives and traces that marketing idea from the Human Genome Project to the present, revealing how politicians,
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