TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sun,Shirley Hsiao-Li
TI  - Socio-economics of personalized medicine in Asia
T2  - Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness
SN  - 9781134989126 (e-book: PDF)
AV  - RA525 .S86 2017
U1  - 362.1095 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Personalized medicine
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Asia
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Medical economics
N1  - 1. Introduction -- 2. Regionalism and the study of human genetic variation in a transnational context : Asianism, nationalism, and the racialization of ethnicity -- 3. Capitalizing on being "othered" : precision medicine and race in the context of a globalized pharmaceutical industry -- 4. Managing "otherness" : genomics and public health policy in Singapore -- 5. Cancer genomics in clinics -- 6. Socio-economic factors and ethical dilemmas in personalized medicine provision -- 7. Conclusion : personalized medicine and population-based genetic/genomic studies
N2  - "The second decade of the 21st century has witnessed a new surge in emphasis on personalized medicine based on analysis of an individual's unique genetic make-up as a means to enable more precise diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases. This book attempts to contribute to this growing body of literature by tracing and analyzing "personalized medicine" as it unfolds in Asia, and in so doing, illustrating various social forces shaping the "co-production" of science and social order in transnational settings. The book shows that there are inextricable transnational linkages between developing and developed countries and also provides a theoretically guided and empirically grounded understanding of the formation and usage of particular human taxonomies in transnational settings"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781134989126
ER  -