Personalised Medicine by Michael Morrison, Saheli Datta Burton - 9781032246314

Personalised MedicineA Critical Approach to Data-Driven Medicine\nAuthor(s): Michael Morrison, Saheli Datta Burton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032246314, 978-1032246314\nSynopsis\nThis book sets out a critical sociological approach to personalised medicine (PM), not only highlighting its limitations and flaws but also emphasising its hopeful potentialities for a better medicine in the future.\n\nBringing together perspectives from science and technology studies, medical sociology, law, and bioethics, this book traces PM from its historical roots in disease classification and predictive genetics to its data-driven present of digital infrastructures, algorithmic prediction, and precision therapeutics. Across seven chapters, it explores how measurement, classification, and datafication shape medical knowledge; how infrastructures and platforms distribute benefits and risks; how publics are imagined as patients,.