- 160 pages
- English
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The Color of Precision Medicine
About this book
Will genome-based precision medicine fix the problem of race/ethnicity-based medicine? To answer this question, Sun and Ong propose the concept of racialization of precision medicine, defined as the social processes by which racial/ethnic categories are incorporated (or not) into the development, interpretation, and implementation of precision medicine research and practice.
Drawing on interview data with physicians and scientists in the field of cancer care, this book addresses the following questions: Who are the racializers in precision medicine, how and why do they do it? Under what conditions do clinicians personalize medical treatments in the context of cancer therapies? The chapters elucidate different ways in which racialization occurs and reveal that there exists an inherent contradiction in the usage of race/ethnicity as precision medicine moves from bench to bedside. The relative resources theory is proposed to explain that whether race/ethnicity-based medicine will be replaced by genomic medicine depends on the resources available at the individual and systemic levels. Furthermore, this book expands on how racialization happens not only in pharmacogenomic drug efficacy studies, but also in drug toxicity studies and cost-effectiveness studies.
An important resource for clinicians, researchers, public health policymakers, health economists, and journalists on how to deracialize precision medicine.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Using race to overcome race: An inherent contradiction in precision medicine
- 3 Transnational colors: Race, ethnicity, and genomic science in the United States of America, Canada, and Singapore
- 4 The “relative resources” model: Heterogeneity of resources and the racialization of precision medicine
- 5 Pharmacogenetic/pharmacogenomic drug toxicity studies, race/ethnicity, and managing adverse drug reactions in the clinic: Ongoing tensions
- 6 Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Index