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• Title:The politics of personalised medicine : pharmacogenetics in the clinic / Adam Hedgecoe.
  
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• Author/Creator:Hedgecoe, Adam.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QV38 .H435 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Pharmacogenetics--Social aspects.
  
• Description:vii, 208 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  
• Series:Cambridge studies in society and the life sciences.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-204) and index.
  
• ISBN:0521841771 (hb)
  0521602653 (pb)
  
• Contents:1. Personalised medicine - a revolution in healthcare
  2. Pharmacogenetics, expectation and promissory science
  3. Genetics, moral risk and professional resistance
  4. Clinical resistance to Alzheimer's pharmacogenetics
  5. Research, industry and pharmacogenetic literacy
  6. Engineering the clinic - getting personalised medicine into practice
  7. fourth hurdle - cost-effectiveness and the funding of pharmacogenetics
  8. Disappointment and disclosure in the pharmacogenetic clinic
  9. personalised is political.