Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good

by Donna Dickenson

Book Overview

Personalized healthcare--or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"--is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model. Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, pharmacogenetically developed therapies in cancer care, private umbilical cord blood banking, and neurocognitive enhancement claim to cater to an individual's specific biological character, and, in some cases, these technologies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231159749
• ISBN13: 9780231159746
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher