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Inside Technology Ser.: Building Genetic Medicine : Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care by Shobita Parthasarathy (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262162423
ISBN-139780262162425
eBay Product ID (ePID)57045054
Product Key Features
Number of Pages296 Pages
Publication NameBuilding Genetic Medicine : Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
SubjectEthics, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Health Care Delivery, Genetics, Health Policy
TypeTextbook
AuthorShobita Parthasarathy
Subject AreaScience, Medical
SeriesInside Technology Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2006-027956
Dewey Edition23
Reviews& " The assumption that universally valid generalizations regarding the value of new medical technologies are possible, given good enough clinical evidence, is proving highly resistant to critique from the social sciences. Shobita Parthasarathy shows how and why genetic testing acquired quite different roles in the United States and in Britain, evoking very different responses from patient advocacy groups in the two countries. Her book is not only a valuable addition to the STS literature. I hope that everyone confronting the implications of rapid scientific and technological advance for health care provision will reflect carefully on what it has to say.& " -- Stuart Blume, Chair, The Innovia Foundation for Medicine, Technology & Society, and Professor of Science Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, "Building Genetic Medicineis an enlightening overview of one of the first skirmishes of our genetic century." - American Scientist, " Building Genetic Medicine is an enlightening overview of one of the first skirmishes of our genetic century." American Scientist, --Dirk Stemerding, Science, Technology, Health & Policy Studies, University of Twente, The Netherlands, " Combining historical, comparative, and coevolutionary perspectives, this book offers a highly original and informative account of the emergence of BRCA testing as a much debated and controversial new health care technology. It makes the reader vividly aware of the various ways in which technologies and practices of health care mutually shape each other." --Dirk Stemerding, Science, Technology, Health & Policy Studies, University of Twente, The Netherlands, --Stuart Blume, Chair, The Innovia Foundation for Medicine, Technology & Society, and Professor of Science Dynamics, University of Amsterdam
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal362.19604207
SynopsisThis is a comparative study of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer in the United States and Britain that shows the importance of national context in the development and use of science and technology in an era of globalisation., A comparative study of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer in the United States and Britain that shows the importance of national context in the development and use of science and technology even in an era of globalization.
LC Classification NumberRC268.44.B73P37 2007
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