Personalised Cancer Medicine: Future Crafting in the Genomic Era

by Anne Kerr

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526141027
• ISBN13: 9781526141026
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"