Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health

by James Tabery

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525658203
• ISBN13: 9780525658207
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.7"