1st Edition

Personalised Medicine A Critical Approach to Data-Driven Medicine

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

This 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. Bringing together perspectives from science and technology studies, medical sociology, law, and bioethics, this book traces PM from its historical roots in disease... Read more

Series Editor Preface

Foreword by Barbara Prainsack

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Origins and Meaning of Personalised Medicine

Chapter 2: The Perils and Promise of Data-Driven Medicine

Chapter 3: Infrastructures and Infrastructur-ing

Chapter 4: The Publics of Personalised Medicine

Chapter 5: Personalisation in Treatment, Therapies, and Care

Chapter 6: Health Data Governance in Personalised Medicine

Chapter 7: The Possible Futures of Personalised Medicine

References

Biography

Michael Morrison is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies, University of Oxford. His work examines the social, ethical, and regulatory dimensions of biomedical innovation, focusing on regenerative medicine, personalised healthcare, and the governance of emerging biotechnologies.

Saheli Datta Burton is a Lecturer in Science Policy at the Department of Science and Technology Studies (UCL-STS), University College London. Her work interrogates the political-economic and governance dimensions of emerging technologies, with a focus on the geostrategic shaping of data-driven health and biomedicine.

Elisa Lievevrouw (PhD, KU Leuven) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Media Culture & Policy Lab, KU Leuven. She studies the interplay between innovation and policymaking in digital health and life sciences.

Elisabetta Biasin is an Associate Researcher at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law. She studies the ethical and legal aspects of healthcare technologies, with a focus on medical device, AI, cybersecurity, and data laws.