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Personalised Cancer Medicine

Future Crafting in the Genomic Era

Anne Kerr author Choon Key Chekar author Emily Ross author Julia Swallow author Sarah Cunningham-Burley author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:5th Jan '21

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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.

ISBN: 9781526141026

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 17mm

Weight: 481g

288 pages