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The color of precision medicine / Shirley Sun and Zoe Ong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li, author.
- Ong, Zoe, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in science, technology, and society
- Routledge studies in science, technology and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Precision medicine.
- Precision Medicine.
- Race Factors.
- Medical Subjects:
- Precision Medicine.
- Race Factors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Shirley Sun is an associate professor of sociology at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Her research areas are medical sociology and sociology of science, knowledge, and technology. She is the author of "Socio-economics of Personalized Medicine in Asia" (2017, London and New York: Routledge). Zoe Ong is a PhD candidate from the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. With an MSc in biological sciences, her research interests include cancer and genetics, digital health, health communication, and health literacy.
- Contents:
- Using race to overcome race : an inherent contradiction in precision medicine
- Trans-national colors : race, ethnicity and genomic science in the United States of America, Canada and Singapore
- The "relative resources" model : heterogeneity of resources and the racialization of precision medicine
- Pharmacogenetic/pharmacogenomic drug toxicity studies, race/ethnicity and managing adverse drug reactions in the clinic : ongoing tensions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 26, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. Color of precision medicine
- ISBN:
- 9781003436102
- 1003436102
- 9781040022894
- 1040022898
- 9781040022900
- 1040022901
- Publisher Number:
- 99996762882
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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