The Politics of Personalised Medicine Pharmacogenetics in the Clinic Hedgecoe

The Politics of Personalised Medicine\n\nPharmacogenetics in the Clinic\n\nExplores the impact of pharmacogenetics, the use of genetic testing to prescribe and develop drugs, on clinical practice.\n\nAdam Hedgecoe (Author)\n\n9780521602655, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 2 December 2004\n\n216 pages\n22.8 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm, 0.35 kg\n\n\""...this work is an extremely useful addition to STS and to anyone interested in a long-term perspective on drug development.\"" -Emily Marden, Science, Technology & Human Values\n\nPharmacogenetics, the use of genetic testing to prescribe and develop drugs, has been hailed as a revolutionary development for the pharmaceutical industry and modern medicine. Supporters of 'personalised medicine' claim the result will be safer, cheaper, more effective drugs, and their arguments are beginning to influence policy debates. Based on interviews with clinicians, researchers, regulators and company representatives, this book explo]