Advancing Healthcare Through Personalized Medicine

ISBN-13: 9781498767088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str.

Priya Hays

Opis

The book provides a unique perspective on the biomedical and societal implications of personalized medicine for patients through case studies, expert interviews, patient narratives and detailed technical descriptions. It presents an overview of what personalized medicine will do for the clinic and how it will help mitigate the healthcare crisis, with a focus on proactive predictive healthcare as opposed to reactive trial by error healthcare.

O autorze

Priya Hays has an A.B. from Dartmouth College and a Master’s in Genetics and Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California. She also conducted research at Dartmouth Medical School for her postdoctoral fellowship. She has taught science writing at Santa Clara University and San Francisco State University. Currently, she is a technical writer at Cepheid Corporation, Sunnyvale, California, USA. Her research interests in biomedicine involve social and cultural aspects of medicine and health, public understanding of genetic testing, stem cell research, and areas in biomedical ethics. She also has an interest in science and technology policy, focusing on biomedical and nanotechnology policy.